Tag: Nature’s Prophet

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alfred Russel Wallace, biography, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Heretic, evolution, George Orwell, history, James T. Costa, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Princeton University Press}

Alfred Russel Wallace: Today’s Special Anniversary

_{David Klinghoffer
December 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

"We may regretfully add Wallace to the Party’s list of obfuscating revisions. The good news is that the truth is still available for those who want to know." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent cause, intelligent evolution, James T. Costa, Man’s Place in the Universe, Martin Fichman, Michael Shermer, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Ross A. Slotten, Social Environment and Moral Progress, spiritualism, The Greatest Show on Earth, The World of Life, Wales, William James, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

_{Michael Flannery
December 1, 2023

Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agnostics, Alfred Russel Wallace, angels, beauty, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, evolution, gods, human race, intelligence, intelligent beings, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, Michael Flannery, mind, nature, Nature's Prophet, power, purpose, spirits, universe, veins, Victorians}

New Thoughts on Evolution: Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.

_{Science and Culture
November 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

17}

"The scales on the wings of a moth," he said quietly, "have no explanation in Evolution. They belong to Beauty, and Beauty is a spiritual mystery." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 25, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, HMS Beagle, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates}

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

_{Michael Flannery
November 25, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Elusive Victorian, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Duprétly, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, John Tyndall, Martin Fichman, Max Horkheimer, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Paul Janet, Quarterly Review, scientism, St. George Mivart, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agent, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, relic principle, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
November 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

6}

If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abrahamic religions, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Corinthians, Darwinism (book), Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, frenemies, Genesis, George Romanes, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, John Lukacs, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Notebook C, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, Social Environment and Moral Progress, teleology, The American Scholar, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
October 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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post

Date
September 30, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, abstract thought, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, Charles Darwin, gaps, human beings, human uniqueness, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, music, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, principle of utility}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

_{Science and Culture
September 30, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

2}

When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Read More ›

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Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, human origins, ID the Future, intellectual history, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Michael Keas, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast}

How Evolutionary Theory’s Co-Founder Broke with Darwin

_{Science and Culture
September 18, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

Unlike Darwin, Wallace thought that biology, chemistry, and cosmology proclaimed clear evidence of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
December 21, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Christianity, evolution, Harvard University, ID the Future, Michael Keas, natural selection, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, podcast, random variation, scientism, The World of Life}

Historian and Nature’s Prophet Author Michael Flannery Reviews the Reviewers

_{Science and Culture
December 21, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

A.R. Wallace was the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection along with Charles Darwin, but in 1869 he broke with Darwin. Read More ›