Tag: Loren Eiseley

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson}

A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, evolution, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson}

When Alfred Russel Wallace Spoke to Me

_{Michael Flannery
September 9, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind” to take in what Wallace had to tell me. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 14, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, barnacles, Barry Gale, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, college students, Douglas Futuyma, Ecuador, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, Fleeming Jenkin, Galápagos Islands, George Gaylord Simpson, John Gould, Loren Eiseley, materialistic science, methodological naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Strickberger’s Evolution, Thomas Huxley}

Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 14, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Edinburgh, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Herbert Spencer, history, James Moore, Linnean Society, Loren Eiseley, Plinian Society, Robert Brown, Robert Edmond Grant}

A.N. Wilson’s Charles Darwin — A Sense of Déjà Vu

_{Michael Flannery
December 20, 2017

Evolution

5}

Factual errors aside, the problem is I’ve heard all this before. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 17, 2016

Categories
Arts
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, brain, credulity, falsified theories, fossil record, hoax, Loren Eiseley, missing links, natural selection, Neanderthals, Piltdown Man, reason, Royal Society, saltationism, The Descent of Man}

What the Piltdown Hoax Tells Us, 104 Years Later

_{Michael Flannery
December 17, 2016

Arts, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Scientific Trustworthiness

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A curious anniversary falls this weekend. Read More ›