Tag: mythology

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian theory, evangelizers, evolution, history, ID the Future, Luther College, Michael Keas, mythology, natural selection, podcast, Robert Shedinger}

Rescuing Evolution from Darwinian Myth

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 5, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Does the public promotion of Darwin’s theory of natural selection match Darwin’s own private view of his theory? Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
December 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, August Weismann, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, group selection, James G. Lennox, John Hedley Brooke, Michael Ghiselin, Michael Ruse, mythology, On the Origin of Species, Samuel Wilberforce, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory

_{Richard Weikart
December 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Euripides, gods, Iphigenia, Judeo-Christian tradition, mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, secularism, theodicy}

Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

_{Neil Thomas
April 18, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abstract, Asa Gray, biographers, Bridgewater Treatises, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Darwinian mechanism, developmental biology, epigenetics, evolution, genomics, hagiography, mythology, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, paleontology, punctuation, Theodosius Dobzhansky, variation, Victorian period}

Does the World Need Another Book About Darwin?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

We need to let Darwin speak for himself. It turns out that Darwin, given the opportunity, is quite capable of dismantling his own mythology. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, catastrophism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, demythologization, evolution, faith, Hell, James Hutton, jesus, mythology, Noah’s Flood, On the Origin of Species, Principles of Geology, Rudolf Bultmann, saltations, special creation, Theory of the Earth, uniformitarianism}

Darwin, Lyell, and Demythologization

_{Neil Thomas
July 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

7}

The term demythologization is today most frequently associated with the mid 20th-century German theologian Rudolf Bultmann. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 8, 2021

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, Asa Gray, biographers, botanists, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cross-fertilization, Darwinian theory, fertility, health, insects, mythology, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orchids, sexuality}

Why Darwin Exaggerated His Health Problems

_{Robert Shedinger
July 8, 2021

Botany, Evolution

5}

All the evidence points to Darwin as a generally healthy man with a strong, active libido, normal sexual function, and prodigious fertility. Read More ›

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Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, creation myth, faith, ID the Future, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, mythology, National Geographic Channel, pantheism, podcast, resurrection, salvation, sin, Unbelievable}

When Cosmos Brought Pantheist-Atheist Mythology into the Open

_{Science and Culture
August 12, 2020

Faith & Science

1}

Everything comes together in a message that includes a creation myth, a story of sin (ecological sin), a salvation story, and even resurrection and ascension. Read More ›

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Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, artificial intelligence, C.S. Lewis, Dan Brown, future, Hesiod, history, ID the Future, john lennox, Max Tegmark, MIT, mythology, Oxford University, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, science fiction, theology, transhumanism}

Oxford Mathematician John Lennox Reviews AI Predictions Through the Ages

_{Science and Culture
July 31, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

1}

With Robert J. Marks, Dr. Lennox discusses AI’s cousin, transhumanism, its surprising history, and its potentially very dark future. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
February 21, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptations, amino acids, antifreeze protein, cellular machinery, DNA, evolution, folklore, genes, just-so stories, mythology, non-coding DNA, nucleotides, protein evolution, proteins, selection pressure, University of Illinois}

At Last, the Details of How Proteins Evolve?

_{Cornelius Hunter
February 21, 2019

Evolution

6}

It is a difficult question because, setting aside many other problems, the very starting point — the protein-coding gene — is highly complex. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
September 12, 2017

Categories
Environment & Climate
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __nedited, “consensus science”, anthropogenic global warming, apocalypticism, catastrophism, climate change, coercion, Del Ratzsch, epicycles, fallibility, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, Johannes Kepler, mythology, perverse incentives, Quartz, rhetorical strategies, Roman Catholic, science, scientism, suppressed evidence, technocracy, Tycho Brahe, Warfare Thesis}

The Galileo Affair — A Durable Myth

_{Cornelius Hunter
September 12, 2017

Environment & Climate, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Trustworthiness

6}

The problem with science, as Del Ratzsch has pointed out, is that it is done by people. Read More ›