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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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 19, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, black holes, evolution, Five Ways, general relativity, gravitation, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, laws of nature, natural theology, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, summer, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing

_{Michael Egnor
April 19, 2021

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Imagine a chain hanging from the sky supporting a weight suspended in the air. Each link in the chain is a cause for the continued suspension of the links. Read More ›

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Date
February 28, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, David Hume, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Logan Gage, natural theology, natural world, philosophers, William Paley}

Jay Richards: A Look Back at Paley and Hume

_{Science and Culture
February 28, 2021

Intelligent Design

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Dr. Richards addresses David Hume’s critique of analogical arguments like those used by William Paley. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
February 2, 2021

Categories
Epistemology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, 'Oumuamua, atheism, Avi Loeb, Carl Sagan, Design Inference, Eric Anderson, extraterrestrial intelligence, intelligent design, natural science, natural theology, ontology, scientific method, SETI}

The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case

_{Paul Nelson
February 2, 2021

Epistemology, Physical Sciences

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The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, "If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?" Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 29, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Cicero, common sense, cosmological argument, David Hume, Evolution News, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Barham, Jay Richards, metaethics, Michael Denton, natural theology, Plato, podcast, realism, Scotland, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell, University of Glasgow}

Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

_{David Klinghoffer
September 29, 2020

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” Read More ›