Parables From Nature Getty Profile 1600x900px Graphic - 1 Type post Author Andrew McDiarmid Date February 5, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , British Museum, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin’s Bluff, evolution, humans, intelligent design, marine biology, Michael Behe, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, paralysis, Patrick Matthew, ravens, Robert Brown, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Socrates, transmutation Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty Andrew McDiarmid February 5, 2024 Evolution, Intelligent Design 11 Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Read More ›
Thomas Malthus Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 16, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity Neil Thomas January 16, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 16 It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›
Samuel Haughton Type post Author Neil Thomas Date June 10, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic Neil Thomas June 10, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 18 Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Flannery Date May 5, 2016 CategoriesHistory of Science Tagged , __tedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, anesthesia, Charles Darwin, evolutionary theory, natural processes, Patrick Matthew, plagiarism, responsibility, science fraud Darwin’s Theory of Evolution — or Patrick Matthew’s? Michael Flannery May 5, 2016 History of Science 5 Journalist Daniel Engber discusses the theory that Charles Darwin engaged in intellectual theft or plagiarism. Read More ›
