Tag: Old Testament

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __trending, ancient Greeks, Augustan age, Before Philosophy, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creation stories, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, France, Genesis, Great Britain, Henri Frankfort, Higher Criticism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, lion, Marcion of Sinope, Mary Midgley, materialists, metaphors, mythographers, natural philosophers, natural selection, oak tree, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, parchment, petroglyphs, religion, Sir Charles Lyell, The Origin of Society, The Temple of Nature, transmutation, Victorian England, whale}

Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness

_{Neil Thomas
July 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

13}

One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 29, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Political Science
Tagged
, Abrahamic faiths, Amazon Prime, Beersheba, Brian Josephson, Christians, City of David, creator, David Friedman, Declaration of Independence, endowed by our creator, Gettysburg, Great Britain, intelligent design, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Mike Pompeo, monotheism, Nazareth, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, Plymouth Rock, Return of the God Hypothesis, Route 60: The Biblical Highway, Stephen Meyer, The Story of Everything, Trump Administration, United States, Valley Forge}

On the Road: The Science of Design in an American Context

_{Granville Sewell
June 29, 2026

Faith & Science, Political Science

5}

We are indebted to the Jewish and Christian writers of the Bible for these truths. They were certainly not self-evident to other cultures of that time. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 29, 2026

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, atheism, Atheists: The Origin of the Species, Avebury, Bishop of Exeter, Book of Job, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Church Fathers, Corsica, Darwinism, Dennis Harding, False Messiah, Gregory the Great, hochvart, Hugh Trevor-Roper, James Henry Froude, John Aubrey, Judeo-Christian tradition, Kellow Chesney, Lisbon earthquake, London, Middle High German, New Testament, Nick Spencer, Old Testament, Origin of Species, Peace of Augsburg, Pentre Ifan, Poor Henry, practical atheists, Ring of Brodgar, secularization, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stonehenge, symmetry thesis, The Nemesis of Faith, The Victorian Underworld, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, Voltaire}

“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 29, 2026

Cultural Anthropology, Faith & Science, History of Science

15}

The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, achievement psychologists, Adolf Hitler, bears, biology, birds, Burl Ives, capitalism, compassion, deer, Devil, diabolos, economics, empathy, eugenics, imperialism, innovation, mathematics, Mein Kampf, Old Testament, Origin of Species, predators, racial hierarchies, Royal Telephone, Satan, society, strength, struggle, The Struggle for Life, war, Warner Brothers, will to power, wolves}

The God of the Darwinian Age

_{William A. Dembski
January 5, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

7}

It is a god who still holds great sway. In fact, we might say it is the god of this world. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

6}

Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Tagged
, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, blueprint, Christianity, civilization, culture, DNA, extraterrestrials, genetic information, genome, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, human being, Human Genome Project, immaterial genome, intelligent design, Islam, Judaism, Martin Luther, medicine, National Institutes of Health, New Testament, Old Testament, Orthodox Judaism, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Protestantism, punctuation, religion, Richard Sternberg, Roman Catholic Church, Scripture, species}

The Genome and the Bible — An Analogy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 25, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics

5}

Richard Sternberg recounts his high hopes, shared with others at the NIH, that the Human Genome Project would reveal the hidden secrets of the human body. Read More ›

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Author
Gregory Rummo

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, Book of Job, chemistry, codons, Douglas Axe, Johannes Kepler, Joseph Hooker, Judeo-Christian tradition, malnutrition, mRNA, Nobel Prize, Old Testament, primordial soup, protein synthesis, proteins, reagents, RNA polymerase, Stephen Meyer, tRNA}

The Wonders of Intelligent Design in Chemistry

_{Gregory Rummo
March 17, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

When we begin the study of protein synthesis, I show students a photograph of my necktie drawer before my wife spent an hour organizing it. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

30}

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, atheism, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, cultural Christianity, Daniel Dennett, documentary, education, ENCODE, Europe, faith and science, Gary Habermas, Islam, James Shapiro, john lennox, Lawrence Krauss, mathematician, natural selection, New Atheism, North America, Old Testament, Oxford University, Pandora’s box, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Sam Harris, Satan, scientific materialism, Scripture, The Design Inference, The God Delusion, Vaccines, William Graham, woke ideology}

No. 3 Story of 2024: Richard Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
December 30, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

23}

What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Annabel Lustig, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Industrial Revolution, Jerry Fodor, jesus, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, neo-Darwinists, New Testament, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, Spanish Inquisition, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Malthus, Wales}

The Fate of Evolution Without Natural Selection

_{Neil Thomas
October 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

It does not seem reasonable to accept the veridical status of evolution on the basis of what an increasing number of scientists perceive as a “dodgy dossier.” Read More ›