Tag: John Ray

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 24, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Political Science
Tagged
, Archbishop Fénelon, atoms, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Christianity, Cicero, creator, culture, Declaration of Independence, Discovery Institute, endowed by our creator, faith and science, Founding, government, happiness, intelligence, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, John Adams, John Ray, John West, liberty, life, liturgy, natural philosophers, natural science, nature, pagans, philosophy, Psalms, race, revelation, Richard Blackmore, rights, Romans, Salvo Magazine, science, stars, Thomas Jefferson, universe}

John West: The Science Underlying the American Founding

_{David Klinghoffer
March 24, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Political Science

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Notice that Jefferson held this “without appeal to revelation.” That is, the study of nature alone was sufficient to produce “a conviction of design.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, John Ray, mammals, physiology, pterosaurs, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Wyoming}

Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

_{Günter Bechly
January 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Enlightenment, evil, John Henry Newman, John Herschel, John Milton, John Ray, methodological naturalism, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, problem of pain, suffering, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theodicy, William Paley}

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

_{Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

19}

For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alister McGrath, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, John Ray, materialism, Meister Eckhart, Moses, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, speciation, Stephen Jay Gould, The God Delusion, theology, William Paley}

Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse

_{Neil Thomas
August 8, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

16}

This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alister McGrath, Bertrand Russell, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Cicero, intelligent design, John Ray, multiverse, natural theology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Plato, Richard Dawkins, St. Augustine, universe, William Paley, Zeitgeist}

On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

_{Neil Thomas
July 16, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

10}

The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 10, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew Klavan, Cambridge, England, faith and science, God Hypothesis, intelligent design, John Ray, natural theology, natural world, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer}

Meyer and Klavan: The Tradition of British Natural Theology

_{David Klinghoffer
May 10, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As luck would have it, Dr. Meyer joined the conversation from a very special city. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arno Penzias, Arthur Holly Compton, Bible, Cambridge University, Catholic clergy, Charles Townes, Deborah Haarsma, DNA, evolution, Fred Hoyle, Georges Lemaître, Guillermo Gonzalez, humans, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, John Ray, Melissa Cain Travis, Museum of the Bible, Nancy Pearcey, Nobel Prize, Ota Benga, Psalms, Robert Jastrow, Signature in the Cell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Meyer, Thinking God’s Thoughts}

No. 7 Story of 2023: Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

_{John G. West
December 26, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 23, 2023

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Arno Penzias, Arthur Holly Compton, Bible, Cambridge University, Catholic clergy, Charles Townes, Deborah Haarsma, DNA, evolution, Fred Hoyle, Guillermo Gonzalez, humans, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, John Ray, Melissa Cain Travis, Museum of the Bible, Nancy Pearcey, Nobel Prize, Ota Benga, Psalms, Robert Jastrow, Signature in the Cell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Meyer, Thinking God’s Thoughts}

New Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

_{John G. West
January 23, 2023

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, birds, empirical science, evolution, human eye, hunters, intelligent design, John Ray, light, Nathan Lents, retina, vision}

Did Nathan Lents Refute Design?

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

5}

Today our knowledge of the eye’s design is far more detailed. Particularly striking are the incredible mechanisms at the molecular level. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Cicero, evolution, eye, intelligent design, John Ray, natural theology, retina, signal transduction, vision, voltage}

The Eye: A Classic Example of Natural Design

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Even Charles Darwin, after publishing his theory of evolution, privately admitted “The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder.” Read More ›