Tag: Lamarckism

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University}

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

_{Michael Flannery
July 9, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles Darwin, cosmology, Darwinism, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, Lamarckism, Mother Nature, natural preservation, natural selection, natural theology, Ovid, Robert J. Richards, teleology, world spirit}

Destroyer or Nurturer? Darwin’s Divinized Conception of Nature

_{Neil Thomas
November 24, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Historical Sciences

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The powers of natural selection transcend human intelligence to such a degree that Darwin came close to imputing to it the capacity for intelligent design. Read More ›

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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, Daniel Dennett, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Lisbon earthquake, Meister Eckhart, natural selection, New Atheists, Noam Chomsky, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, Thomas Aquinas, truth, Unmoved Mover, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

17}

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
, DNA, DNA sequence, dogmatism, epigenetic change, epigenetics, evolution, heredity, ideology, Lamarckism, materialism, methodological naturalism, offspring, presuppositions, Richard C. Lewontin}

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, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, 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, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit}

Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

_{Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

19}

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, Charles Darwin, Communists, cooperation, creationists, Donald Trump, E.O. Wilson, evolution, fundamentalists, history, Indiana University, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Ku Klux Klan, Lamarckism, Marxists, Michael Ruse, Nazism, progressives, 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

7}

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, intelligent design, Israel, Lamarckian theory, Lamarckism, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, non-random mutation}

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, English, evolution, French, German, intelligent design, Lamarckism, Latin, 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, mutations, nerves, Science (journal), Science Advances, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen}

Giraffe Genome Is Not Evolutionary

_{Science & 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
, __cedited, biological information, Christianity, Communists, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, earth, Enceladus, Fox Broadcasting Company, Gregor Mendel, Internet trolls, John Herschel, Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, materialism, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, oxygen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Trofim Lysenko}

New Cosmos Episodes: Only Part of the Story

_{Science & Culture
March 18, 2020

Chemistry, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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