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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

On the Origin of Species

Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
August 26, 2022
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Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Science
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Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda

Neil Thomas
August 26, 2022
Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Science
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To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task. Read More ›
Asa Gray
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Neil Thomas
Date
August 25, 2022
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Evolution
Science
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Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America

Neil Thomas
August 25, 2022
Evolution, Science
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A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
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Neil Thomas
Date
August 2, 2022
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Darwin, Group Think, and Confirmation Bias

Neil Thomas
August 2, 2022
Evolution, Faith & Science
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How was Darwinian theory, despite its lack of empirical support or even semblance of verisimilitude, able to advance to its present position of orthodoxy? Read More ›
Charles_Bradlaugh_Statue_Northampton
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Neil Thomas
Date
August 1, 2022
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Culture
Faith & Science
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Darwin and the British Secularist Tradition

Neil Thomas
August 1, 2022
Culture, Faith & Science
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The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama. Read More ›
roulette wheel
Photo credit: John Wardell, via Flickr (cropped).
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Neil Thomas
Date
July 19, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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The Art of Concealment: Darwin and Chance

Neil Thomas
July 19, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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It is appropriate that Fortuna’s emblematic representation with her ubiquitous wheel should have gone on to become the prototype of the modern roulette wheel. Read More ›
Mother Earth
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
July 15, 2022
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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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 ›
Mother Earth
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Neil Thomas
Date
July 14, 2022
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”

Neil Thomas
July 14, 2022
Evolution, Faith & Science
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When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›
Bust of Rudolf Bultmann
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Author
Neil Thomas
Date
July 8, 2022
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Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Geology
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Darwin, Lyell, and Demythologization

Neil Thomas
July 8, 2022
Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology
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The term demythologization is today most frequently associated with the mid 20th-century German theologian Rudolf Bultmann. Read More ›
midwife toad
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Neil Thomas
Date
July 7, 2022
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Evolution
Faith & Science
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Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck

Neil Thomas
July 7, 2022
Evolution, Faith & Science
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The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.” Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
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William A. Dembski
Date
June 29, 2022
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

William A. Dembski
June 29, 2022
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Read More ›

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