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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, archetype, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Christian University, Discovery Institute, human mind, ID the Future, image, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Melissa Cain Travis, Middle Ages, natural theology, podcast, science history, Thinking God’s Thoughts}

Thinking God’s Thoughts: Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 7, 2023

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Melissa Cain Travis traces the intellectual pedigree of Johannes Kepler’s ideas all the way back to the ancients. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 28, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, chemicals, Energy, entropy, evolutionary theory, God's Grandeur, ID the Future, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, multiverse, natural processes, natural theology, order, Pat Flynn, philosophers, Philosophy for the People, podcast}

The Return of Natural Theology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 28, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God. Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Christianity, cosmos, creator, crocodiles, earth, elephants, faith, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, history, intelligent design, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, natural theology, Nicolaus Copernicus, prayer, Saturn, sun}

Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

_{Melissa Cain Travis
February 8, 2023

Astronomy, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 3, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, England, France, French Revolution, Mircea Eliade, natural theology, Natural Theology (book), nature, soul, spirituality, William Paley, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
November 3, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Great Britain, HMS Beagle, natural theology, Natural Theology (book), nature, spirituality, William Paley, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Natural Revelation and Natural Selection: Wordsworth versus Darwin

_{Neil Thomas
November 2, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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It has long been recognized that the many hymns to Nature in the poetic works of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) convey an implicit belief in natural theology. 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
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent design, natural history, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, Richard Dawkins}

Charles Darwin’s “Intelligent Design”

_{Robert Shedinger
April 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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"To those whose delight it is to dwell upon the manifold instances of intelligent design which everywhere surround us, this book will be a rich storehouse." Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
January 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Cicero, evolution, eye, intelligent design, John Ray, natural theology, retina, signal transduction, vision, voltage}

The Eye: A Classic Example of Natural Design

_{Cornelius Hunter
January 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Even Charles Darwin, after publishing his theory of evolution, privately admitted “The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
September 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, animism, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, evolution, James Le Fanu, materialistic science, natural selection, natural theology, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Samuel Wilberforce, selfish genes, Zeus}

The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment

_{Neil Thomas
September 13, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›