Tag: literature

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Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Culture
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alistair McKitterick, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, David Galloway, Enlightenment, False Messiah, French Revolution, George Eliot, history, James Le Fanu, literature, Marxism, Michael Behe, Neil Thomas, Paul Beasley-Murray, Peter Jeavons, philosophy of nature, purpose, purposeless, Steve Fuller, Steve Laufmann, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Prelude, Victorian England, William Wordsworth}

New Book: Darwinism as “The God That Failed”

_{Science and Culture
October 21, 2025

Culture, Evolution, History of Science

8}

There is hope for renewal in a flanking movement against materialism — the spiritually charged philosophy of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Tagged
, alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Ben Jonson, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Marlowe, Cicero, David Berman, Doctor Faustus, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, H. J. Shephard, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, Peter Bement, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, The Alchemist, Tom Wolfe}

Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea

_{Neil Thomas
September 25, 2025

Arts, Evolution

19}

Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›

Old fashioned television set with green screen displaying static noise in a vintage living room with outdated furniture.

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Arts
Linguistics
Sociology
Tagged
, Bible, books, censorship, civilization, communication, COVID-19, economy, education, Fahrenheit 451, governance, Guy Montag, James Marriott, Jared Henderson, literacy, literacy rates, literature, memory, Newsweek, oral culture, post-literate culture, Ray Bradbury, screens, stories, storytelling, technology, Ted Gioia, television, UnHerd, visual media, Western canon, young people}

Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

_{Peter Biles
August 29, 2025

Arts, Linguistics, Sociology

5}

Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Tagged
, adventure, art, beauty, betrayal, Beyond the Story, Christina Bieber Lake, death, duty, Englishmen, evolution, fiction, honor, human life, human nature, James Matthew Wilson, Kenneth Grahame, literature, love, machines, meaning, movies, philosophers, pornography, Roger Scruton, romance, scientism, social media, The Wind in the Willows, TV shows, universe, Wheaton College}

In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense

_{Peter Biles
August 21, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution

4}

Some assume humanity’s longstanding appreciation for art, be it literary, visual, or musical, has evolutionary groundings. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 2, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, beauty, Big Bang, Bijan Nemati, bioethics, biology, biomedicine, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, chemistry, Colorado, computer science, cosmology, Daniel Reeves, Emily Reeves, engineering, evo-devo, evolution, faith and science, family life, geologists, geology, Guillermo Gonzalez, history, ID 3.0, intelligent design, Ivy League, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan McLatchie, literature, Logan Gage, medicine, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, multiverse, origin of life, Paul Nelson, physics, Richard Gunasekera, Robert J. Marks, Rocky Mountains, scientocracy, sexuality, society, Stephen Meyer, Summer Seminars, undergraduates, Winston Ewert}

Just Got Back from the Summer Seminars

_{Casey Luskin
July 2, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

3}

As always, this selective program was entirely cost free to participants, thanks to our generous supporters. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 22, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ChatGPT4o, Dublin, English, fiction, healthy lifestyles, James Joyce, kitsch, large language models, literature, Ludwig van Beethoven, Michelangelo, Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Nearer, William Shakespeare}

Arguing About Taste with Large Language Models

_{William A. Dembski
October 22, 2024

Bioethics, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

22}

When Large Language Models aspire to the literary genius of James Joyce, what could go wrong? Read More ›

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Author
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
June 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adoption, atheism, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Christopher Hitchens, Darwinism, fiction, Guillermo Gonzalez, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Intelligent Design Uncensored, Iowa, literature, Michael Behe, novels, Richard Dawkins, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet, young adults}

The Farm at the Center of the Universe: Q&A with the Authors

_{Guillermo Gonzalez and Jonathan Witt
June 4, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

10}

The granddad is the novel’s primary defender of intelligent design and belief in God. He’s a bright, curious retired chemistry professor. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, culture, David Foster Wallace, Facebook, film, humanity, Instagram, Internet, journalists, literature, loneliness, modern life, money, television, TikTok, United States}

Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning

_{Peter Biles
April 9, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions. Read More ›

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Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, evolution, faith and science, intelligent design, John West, literature, natural selection, The Magician's Twin, theology}

C. S. Lewis on Natural Selection’s Power, or Lack of It

_{Science and Culture
April 8, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

1}

What were C. S. Lewis's real views on evolution and intelligent design? Dr. John West explores the topic. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, C.S. Lewis, chatbot, ChatGPT, CNET, consciousness, Edgar Allan Poe, human uniqueness, literature, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Stephen King, stories, Walter Bradley Center, Wheaton College}

Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

_{Peter Biles
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›