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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 29, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alister McGrath, BioLogos, Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, dialogue, faith, Francis Collins, Michael Ruse, religion, scientists, theistic evolution, theology, Tom Gilson}

How Science and Faith Relate — Three Options

_{Jonathan Witt
June 29, 2021

Faith & Science

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"Dialogue," in practice, can quickly devolve into a monologue where religion is supposed to sit down and shut up the moment there is a point of difference. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 20, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alister McGrath, Bruce Gordon, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, dialogue, Discovery Institute, Houston Baptist University, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Kalam cosmological argument, methodological naturalism, Michael Ruse, Northwestern University, On the Origin of Species, public education, Robert Boyle, theistic evolution}

New “Three Views” Book Explores the Relationship of Faith and Science

_{Casey Luskin
May 20, 2021

Faith & Science

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Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have seen inaccurate descriptions of intelligent design from Professor McGrath. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

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Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I}

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

_{Richard Weikart
April 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 23, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Arthur Schopenhauer, biologists, Cambridge University Press, Christianity, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, human evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Mein Kampf, Michael Ruse, militarism, Nazism, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”

_{Richard Weikart
April 23, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheism, C.S. Lewis, evolution, George Bernard Shaw, history, Michael Ruse, panpsychism, philosophers, religion}

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

_{Michael Flannery
March 6, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science

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Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 5, 2021

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Mathematics
Tagged
, abstract thought, C.S. Lewis, Darwinian theory, Darwinism as religion, Michael Ruse, music, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, scientific reductionism, South America, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Henry Huxley}

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

_{Michael Flannery
March 5, 2021

Arts, Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Mathematics

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Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 4, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, flies, Immanuel Kant, Michael Ruse, neo-Darwinian theory, Plato, religion}

Michael Ruse: Darwin’s Hedgehog Searches for Purpose

_{Michael Flannery
March 4, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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For Ruse, “Darwin is like Moses” who “led his children [himself among them] to the Promised Land but never got there himself.” Read More ›