Tag: Lucretius

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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

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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 ›

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Author
Elie Feder

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cosmological constant, cosmologists, cosmology, fine-tuning, fluctuations, intelligent cause, laws of nature, Lucretius, Ludwig Boltzmann, Marvel Cinematic Universe, measure problem, multiverse, parallel universes, philosophers, physical constants, physicists, thermal equilibrium}

Is the Multiverse Real?

_{Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer
April 24, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

2}

Despite its various iterations, few philosophers or scientists had taken the multiverse seriously — until 1998. Read More ›

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Author
Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algae, animals, cats, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, descendants, Dogs, domestic animals, elephants, England, flies, grasses, infusoria, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lucretius, mites, mosses, mushrooms, natural history, natural selection, oaks, On the Origin of Species, pigeon-fanciers, propositions, Quarterly Review, reasoning, Roderick Murchison, Siluria, Thomas Henry Huxley, truffles, turnips, variations, Vestiges of Creation, whales, worms, zoophyte}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin

_{Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce
April 7, 2025

Botany, Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

27}

"We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds." Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

14}

Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Revolution, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Cicero, Darwinism, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, faith and science, Friedrich Engels, Galen, Lucretius, Matt Ridley, natural selection, Plato, Stephen Greenblatt, Taking Leave of Darwin, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus}

Three Thousand Years of Darwinism

_{Neil Thomas
December 23, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

13}

I began to suspect that Darwinism was being taught at school in a somewhat philosophically decontextualized way, lacking historical background. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrea Roli, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Dalton, Douglas Axe, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Evolution “On Purpose”, flukes, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, Michael Behe, New York City, On the Nature of Things, philosophers, predictions, Stuart Kauffman, universe, University of Bologna, worldview}

Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument

_{Daniel Witt
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 27, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, afterlife, aliens, Avi Loeb, Big Bang, C.S. Lewis, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, Harvard University, higher intelligence, intelligent design, Lucretius, Macrobes, materialism, matter, microbes, religions, scientists, Stanford University, supernatural, That Hideous Strength, The Guardian, The Screwtape Letters, UAPs, UFOs}

Meet the Materialist Magicians

_{Daniel Witt
March 27, 2024

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences

9}

As our first case study, let’s look at Gary Nolan. Nolan is a distinguished immunologist at Stanford who believes that aliens are visiting Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, Anaximander, Anaximenes, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, Melanie Phillips, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, New Synthesis, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Victorian period, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

20}

The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 9, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, antiquity, Apostle Paul, Aristotle, atomism, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, evolution, Francisco Ayala, Hippocrates, intelligent design, Lucretius, materialism, Modern Synthesis, natural processes, Neo-Darwinism, Plato, population genetics, Romans, Science and Faith in Dialogue, teleology}

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
April 9, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

5}

Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, argument from incredulity, automation, autonomic nervous system, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, circulation, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, heart, Howard Glicksman, innovation, intelligent design, Lucretius, Michael Denton, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Paul Davies, physiology, prosthetics, Steve Laufmann}

On the Miracles of Physiological Design

_{Neil Thomas
January 19, 2023

Anatomy, Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science

12}

The book under review is a splendid and uniquely well-informed contribution to the debate about what is by all indices a theory in possibly terminal crisis. Read More ›