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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Brave New World, business, C.S. Lewis, chemotherapy, freedom, grief, intelligent design, Jews, literature, love, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, music, pain, poetry, problem of pain, suffering, Utopia}

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

_{Granville Sewell
November 28, 2022

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

_{Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), faith, literature, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Ruse, Percy Shelley, religion, Richard Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, William Blake}

Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job

_{Neil Thomas
March 3, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 17, 2021

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Blaise Pascal, Charles Darwin, creator, Darwinian theory, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gothic cathedrals, H.G. Wells, Hamlet, intelligent design, literature, logical positivism, Marxism, materialism, Middle Ages, narrative, nihilism, pigeons, Pulitzer Prize, The Time Machine, William Shakespeare}

Intelligent Design and the Restoration of Story

_{Jonathan Witt
March 17, 2021

Arts, Bioethics, Biology, Intelligent Design

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Celebrating the growing evidence of intelligent design can help rescue the arts from the nihilism and ugliness they have descended into in many quarters. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", 2001: A Space Odyssey, civilization, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, evolution, extinction, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, humans, literature, mutations, natural science, natural selection, naturalism, science fiction, sheep, Stanley Kubrick, The Time Machine, Thomas Hardy, violence}

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

_{Jonathan Witt
December 12, 2020

Bioethics

3}

The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Read More ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, Aristotle, books, C.S. Lewis, college, education, educators, Homer, literature, Mark Studdock, poets, progressive, Saint Augustine, Socrates, Tao, That Hideous Strength, theologians, Western civilization}

Concluding Thoughts on That Hideous Strength

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 20, 2020

Bioethics

6}

What was possible for Mark Studdock — the realization that much of contemporary civilization is built on lies — is still possible for any thoughtful person. Read More ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Sociology
Tagged
, beauty, C.H. Waddington, C.S. Lewis, England, Greek, humanity, Latin, literature, Mark Studdock, scientism, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners}

The Education of Mark Studdock in That Hideous Strength

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 19, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Sociology

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Mark is lured away from his teaching position at Bracton College to become part of the massive research effort known as the N.I.C.E. Read More ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 18, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, England, English, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hinduism, literature, pedagogy, Plato, propaganda, Saint Augustine, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, values, Wheaton College}

The Main Argument of The Abolition of Man

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 18, 2020

Bioethics, Philosophy

17}

Lewis foresees a class of men called “the Conditioners.” The Conditioners have “seen through” all attempts to ground behaviour in any ultimate truth. Read More ›

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Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, abuse, C.S. Lewis, culture, dystopia, John West, literature, science, scientism, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Magician's Twin}

A Prophetic Warning Against the Abuse of Science

_{Science & Culture
August 17, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics

2}

Learn about the relevance of C.S. Lewis's dystopian novel for today in this video commemorating its 75th anniversary. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 10, 2019

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, blood vessels, Boston, creation myth, Darwinism, Design Inference, evolution, intelligent design, literature, lungs, Nobel Prize, oxygen, red blood cells, reverse-engineering, scientists, teachers}

It’s Another Great Nobel Year for Design

_{Michael Egnor
October 10, 2019

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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And a bad year for a 19th-century creation myth. It’s understandable that Darwinists are a bit dejected. Read More ›