Tag: Lucretius | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

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January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, creation, Enlightenment, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, French Revolution, Jacques Monod, John Milton, Lucretius, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, spontaneous generation, theodicy, Thomas Paine}

Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

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October 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, creation, demiurge, Discovery Institute, evolution, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, intelligent design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith}

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Culture, Faith & Science

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Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley}

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

_{Neil Thomas
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe}

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Antoine Lavoisier, biosphere, Charles Darwin, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, natural selection, neologisms, Peter Atkins, Stephen Hawking, universe, Victorians, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

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April 7, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, "natural selection." Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 27, 2022

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, atomism, Chance and Necessity, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinism, David Hume, Epicurus, evolution, fear, human beings, Jacques Monod, Lucretius, natural selection, Richard Dawkins}

The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection

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January 27, 2022

Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 26, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Cicero, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Galen, intelligent design, Lucretius, Phoenix, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stoics, Thomas Aquinas}

The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism

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January 26, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, afterlife, atomism, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinian theory, demiurge, Epicurus, evolution, gods, Greek, Latin, Lucretius, materialism, Matthew Arnold, Victorians}

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

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January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 12, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, London, Lucretius, Ludwig Feuerbach, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Naturphilosophie, world spirit}

Darwinian Theory: Science or Speculative Philosophy?

_{Neil Thomas
January 12, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures. Read More ›