Tag: paganism

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, americans, aneurysm, assisted suicide, atheism, brain, castration, child sacrifice, Christianity, culture, Denyse O’Leary, euthanasia, Heaven, immateriality, immortality, infinity, logic, materialism, materialists, mathematics, media, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgery, paganism, Pam Reynolds, Pam Reynolds Challenge, philosophy, physics, pornography, precision, sexual grooming, sexual mutilation, simplicity, St. Augustine, St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas, surgeons, The Immortal Mind, tunnel, Western civilization}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Near-Death Experiences and Saving the Culture

_{John Zmirak
September 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a huge and complex topic. Tens of millions of people have had NDEs and similar spiritual experiences." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Chaberek

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, Communism, Conservation of Information, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, democracy, freedom, George Weigel, Judeo-Christian tradition, materialism, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Paul Nelson, Poland, Robert Stackpole, social realism, theistic evolution, theology, Tree of Life, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw Pact, William A. Dembski, World War II}

Postcard from Warsaw: Are Christians Doomed to Evolution?

_{Michael Chaberek, O.P.
July 9, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

At our conference, we discussed the parallels between Communism and Darwinism. Perhaps the two are fated to meet the same end. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Darwinian materialism, evolution, geneticists, ID the Future, John Updike, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic humanism}

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

_{Science and Culture
January 14, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Read More ›

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, adultery, Christianity, Genesis, Greco-Roman world, husbands, image of God, marriage, men, paganism, prostitutes, Rodney Stark, Romans, Rome, salvation, slaves, wives, women}

Women and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 18, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

In this historical context, the Christian view of marriage was nothing short of revolutionary. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, colonialism, culture, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Great Britain, history, imperialism, Jeremiah, John West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, paganism, podcast, scientific racism, Scripture, World Magazine}

Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

_{David Klinghoffer
February 19, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 5, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, burial, Christianity, dirt, flowers, forest, gnosticism, human dignity, human life, Judeo-Christian tradition, nature worship, neo-paganism, New York Times, paganism, salvation, Scripture, second coming, Washington State, Western civilization}

Nature Worship Advances as Human Dignity Retreats

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 5, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

3}

The dead body has value because the human person does. How we treat our dead reflects our views on what we think about the living. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 19, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, Earth Law Center, economics, freedom, Gaia Theory, geological features, human thriving, humans, ideology, nature rights, nonhumans, oceans, paganism, PLOS Biology, technocracy, wokeness}

Woke Science: Prestigious Biology Journal Claims “Ocean” Is a “Living Entity” with Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 19, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

4}

The “Ocean rights” approach would make the creatures of the sea co-equal with humans. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, goddess, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley}

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

_{Neil Thomas
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

10}

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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, goddess, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould}

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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 12, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, autopsy, bacteria, Christopher Hitchens, computer program, creation myth, Edward Feser, evolutionary theory, First Amendment, Five Ways, Gaia, genetic information, Lawrence Krauss, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meat machines, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, paganism, plagiarism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Aquinas}

New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools

_{Michael Egnor
December 12, 2019

Faith & Science

5}

New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching. Read More ›