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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alister McGrath, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, John Ray, materialism, Meister Eckhart, Moses, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, speciation, Stephen Jay Gould, The God Delusion, theology, William Paley}

Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse

_{Neil Thomas
August 8, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Bible, Charles Darwin, complexification, Darwinism, Epicurus, Higher Criticism, Lawrence Krauss, Mircea Eliade, Old Testament, Plato, Richard Dawkins, Stonehenge, Victorian England}

Why Has Darwin Been Believed?

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

17}

By the later 1830s educated people in England and far beyond its borders had experienced some truly convulsive existential tremors beneath their feet. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Science Education
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}

Dawkins the New Cultural Christian

_{William A. Dembski
May 1, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, Science Education

22}

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
April 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ancient Greece, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Euripides, gods, Judeo-Christian tradition, mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, secularism, theodicy}

Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy

_{Neil Thomas
April 18, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science

13}

Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Erika DeBenedictis, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, Yuval Harari}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

9}

Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, Genesis, Greek, Heaven, Hebrew, humans, Isaiah, Neuralink, New Testament, Old Testament, OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Skynet, Ten Commandments, The Matrix, The Singularity is Near, Tower of Babel}

Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

_{William A. Dembski
January 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

14}

Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 20, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Biola University, Israel, J.P. Moreland, Jerusalem, jesus, john lennox, Jupiter, Messiah, New Testament, Old Testament, Oxford University, Saturn, University of Cambridge}

The Christmas Star — A Sign of Design

_{Eric Hedin
December 20, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

9}

Part of the difficulty with arriving at a satisfactory theory for the Star stems from a compartmentalized approach. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 7, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Paleontology
Tagged
, Christianity, conversion, evidence, faith, Gospels, Günter Bechly, Holy Spirit, intelligent design, miracles, Neo-Darwinism, Old Testament, paleontologists, religious tradition, Salvo Magazine, Science, theism}

Günter Bechly’s Journey to Faith

_{David Klinghoffer
October 7, 2022

Faith & Science, Paleontology

2}

I can identify with the last paragraph, in the context of my own different religious tradition, with certain other difference as well. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
Tagged
, BBC, Bible, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, creation, Darwinism, faith, fundamentalism, Gospels, HMS Beagle, Honest to God, John Robinson, miracles, New Testament, Old Testament, original sin, orthodoxy, Oxford University, Principles of Geology, revelation, Richard Dawkins, Robert Fitzroy, Rudolf Bultmann, theology, Tower of Babel, Victorians}

Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths

_{Neil Thomas
July 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology

10}

Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution. Read More ›