Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature

Authors

Douglas Axe
Photo provided by Doug Axe.
Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
Photo courtesy of Celeste Behe.
David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
Photo provided by David Coppedge.
William A. Dembski
Image provided by Bill Dembski
Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC-BY)
Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Bruce Gordon
Photo courtesy of Bruce Gordon
Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
Photo courtesy of Stephen Iacoboni
David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
Photo provided by Katja Deborah Lönnig
Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Andrew McDiarmid
Photo by Casey Sernaqué
Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC BY)
Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
Photo provided by Emily Sandico
Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
Photo by Nathan Jacobson for Discovery Institute (CC-BY)
Wesley J. Smith
Photo by Gary Fong, Used by Permission, All Rights Reserved
Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
Photo by Chris Morgan, © Discovery Institute
Daniel Witt
Photo provided by Daniel Witt.
Jonathan Witt

Topic

Karl Marx

Thomas Malthus
Image: Thomas Malthus, by John Linnell, via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Author
Neil Thomas
Date
January 16, 2023
Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023
Evolution, Intelligent Design
16
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›
Marx and Engels
Image: Marx and Engels, by E. Capiro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Author
Richard Weikart
Date
June 3, 2022
Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Linking Darwin Skepticism with Anti-Communism, Historian Offers a Misguided Attack

Richard Weikart
June 3, 2022
Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design
5
Weinberg's evidence that Discovery Institute uses intelligent design to bash communism is completely lacking. Read More ›
Karl Marx tomb
Photo: Karl Marx tomb, London, by Paasikivi, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Author
Richard Weikart
Date
June 2, 2022
Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Do Darwin Critics Reject Evolution Because They’re Anti-Communists? Carl Weinberg Says Yes

Richard Weikart
June 2, 2022
Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution
7
In a couple of cases, Weinberg goes beyond the pale, making accusations that are bizarre and even slanderous. Read More ›
Karl Marx
Photo: Karl Marx, by John Jabez Edwin Mayal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Author
Richard Weikart
Date
June 1, 2022
Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

Richard Weikart
June 1, 2022
Bioethics, Evolution
3
Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. Read More ›
Darwin's shoes
Photo: Detail of Darwin statue, Natural History Museum, London, by Rept0n1x (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Author
Neil Thomas
Date
December 14, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Materialist Science as Paternalistic Propaganda

Neil Thomas
December 14, 2021
Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design
7
Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons. Read More ›
Eric Metaxas
Photo: Eric Metaxas at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, via YouTube.
Type
post
Author
John Zmirak
Date
October 28, 2021
Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Reasons to Believe: Eric Metaxas’s Powerful New Book, Is Atheism Dead?

John Zmirak
October 28, 2021
Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
6
Eric doesn’t just know the relevant books, but he knows most of the living authors, whose findings strip away the accumulated varnish of atheist materialism. Read More ›
Andrew Klavan
Photo: Andrew Klavan, by Embutler, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
Type
post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
October 4, 2021
Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“Stuck in the Late 19th Century”: Andrew Klavan, Stephen Meyer on Scientific Atheism

David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2021
Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design
2
Darwin, Marx, and Freud are largely responsible for elaborating the outlook that sought to replace the Western theistic view. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
Type
post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
June 4, 2021
Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2021
Bioethics
4
Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
Type
post
Author
David Klinghoffer
Date
January 26, 2021
Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection

David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2021
Bioethics, Evolution
3
"Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history." Read More ›
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, by Jakob Schlesinger / Public domain.
Type
post
Author
Michael Egnor
Date
September 22, 2020
Categories
Biology
Evolution
Metaphysics
Tagged
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

Michael Egnor
September 22, 2020
Biology, Evolution, Metaphysics
6
Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute