Tag: North American Teilhard Society

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genetic engineering, intelligent design, Internet, Jesuits, noosphere, North American Teilhard Society, paleontology, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown Man, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel, Vatican}

On the 70th Anniversary of His Death, Anything to Salute in the Thought of Teilhard de Chardin?

_{Robert Shedinger
April 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The significance of Teilhard's pointing out the incomplete nature of the evolutionary theory of his day should not be underestimated. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 13, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genetic engineering, intelligent design, Internet, Jesuits, noosphere, North American Teilhard Society, paleontology, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown Man, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel}

Teilhard de Chardin and the Incomplete Nature of Evolutionary Theory

_{Robert Shedinger
February 13, 2020

Evolution, Faith & Science

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As Thomas Nagel would argue today, any theory of evolution that excludes the origin of mind and consciousness from consideration is at best half a theory. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
January 13, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Abraham Lincoln, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of Theological Schools, Barbara McClintock, Brooklyn College, Buddha, central dogma, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian, Discovery Institute, Divine Foot, Douglas Futuyma, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, Francisco Ayala, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, James Shapiro, James Watson, jesus, John Avise, Luther College, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Marcos Eberlin, mental illness, Moses, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), North American Teilhard Society, Paul, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, skeptics, sociobiology, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, teleology, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomson Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, William Provine}

Religion, Science, and Evolution: Confessions of a Darwinian Skeptic

_{Robert Shedinger
January 13, 2020

Faith & Science

30}

As I read through the scientific literature of evolutionary biology to try and convince myself of its accuracy and coherence, I was struck by the frequency with which I encountered “religious” language. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, brain, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Human Zoos, Kenneth Miller, mental illness, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, National Institutes of Health, North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, psychiatry, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›