Tag: Lamarckism

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C. S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Deborah Lavin, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, ineffable, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Leslie Stephen, Lisbon earthquake, logomachia, Louise Mabille, Marcus du Sautoy, Meister Eckhart, Moses Maimonides, natural selection, negative theology, New Atheists, Newtonianism, Noam Chomsky, Peter Vorzimmer, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Robin Le Poidevin, Sextus Empiricus, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, The above consideration, Thomas Aquinas, truth, tsunami, Unmoved Mover, via negativa, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg, wortelos, wortlos}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

The gaseous state of matter is essential in understanding the behavior of elements at various temperatures

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Arshak Alexanian, dauer-modifications, DNA, DNA sequence, dogmatism, epigenetic change, epigenetics, evolution, Green Fluorescent Protein, heredity, ideology, Kamal Nahas, Lamarckism, materialism, methodological naturalism, methyl groups, mRNA transcripts, noncoding RNA, offspring, presuppositions, Richard C. Lewontin, The New York Review of Books}

Why Dogmatic Materialism Is Bad for Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 15, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Richard Lewontin addressed a controversy in evolution: Can life forms acquire characteristics during their lifespan that they pass on to their offspring? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lamarckism, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, metaphors, Mother Nature, natural causes, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Steve Laufmann, Steve Stewart-Williams, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit}

Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

_{Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Answers in Genesis, anti-communism, Baptists, Carl Weinberg, Charles Darwin, Communists, cooperation, Cornell University Press, creationists, Donald Trump, E.O. Wilson, evolution, fundamentalists, history, Indiana University, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Ku Klux Klan, Lamarckism, Marxists, Michael Ruse, Nazism, progressives, Red Dynamite, Socialist Darwinism, The Descent of Man}

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

_{Richard Weikart
June 2, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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In a couple of cases, Weinberg goes beyond the pale, making accusations that are bizarre and even slanderous. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 15, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arabidopsis, cardiovascular system, epigenetics, evolution, genome, Ghana, hawk, intelligent design, Israel, Lamarckian theory, Lamarckism, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, non-random mutation, University of Haifa}

Paper Provides More Evidence that Mutations Aren’t Random

_{Casey Luskin
March 15, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

A news release from the University of Haifa pulls no punches about the implications. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 1, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, David Brown, English, evolution, French, German, Heinrich Bronn, intelligent design, Lamarckism, Latin, Ludwig Büchner, Mother Nature, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, telos, translation}

Natural Selection: A Conceptually Incoherent Term

_{Neil Thomas
December 1, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

As a schoolboy I remember being told that the surest way of finding out if any given English proposition made sense or not was to try to translate it into Latin, French, or German. Read More ›

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Date
May 7, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, blood pressure, blood vessels, carpal tunnel syndrome, Charles Darwin, circadian rhythms, evolution, evolutionists, genes, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, J.P. Moreland, Lamarckism, long neck, mutations, nerves, pleiotropy, Science (journal), Science Advances, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen}

Giraffe Genome Is Not Evolutionary

_{Science and Culture
May 7, 2021

Evolution

7}

Ah, the giraffe. Darwin put his mechanism at war with Lamarck’s to explain the giraffe’s long neck. Evolutionists are still battling over the question. Read More ›

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Date
March 18, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, biological information, Christianity, Communists, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, earth, Enceladus, Fox Broadcasting Company, Gregor Mendel, Internet trolls, John D. Sutherland, John Herschel, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, materialism, National Geographic Channel, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, oxygen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Trofim Lysenko}

New Cosmos Episodes: Only Part of the Story

_{Science and Culture
March 18, 2020

Chemistry, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

5}

These episodes will slip in smoothly in public school science classrooms, someday when all the schools reopen. Read More ›

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Date
February 18, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, academic freedom, Darwinian theory, dissent, federal grants, free speech, Lamarckism, Lysenkoism, Michael Egnor, orthodoxy, podcast, Politics, science, Soviet Union, Stony Brook University, Tod Butterfield, Trofim Lysenko}

American Lysenkoism, and the Darwinists Who Embrace It

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2018

Evolution, Scientific Freedom

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Today the term Lysenkoism applies to any use of government power to enforce scientific orthodoxy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 3, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, Expelled (movie), junk DNA, Karl Marx, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Lamarckism, Mendelism, Modern Synthesis, molecular genetics, Russia, Soviet Union, Steven Novella, Trofim Lysenko}

Darwinian Lysenkoism in America

_{Michael Egnor
January 3, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Scientific Freedom

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As Lysenkoism enjoys a revival in Russia, it thrives here too. Read More ›