Darwin's finch Type post Author Neil Thomas Date March 7, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lamarckism, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, metaphors, Mother Nature, natural causes, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Steve Laufmann, Steve Stewart-Williams, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage Neil Thomas March 7, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 19 Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›
Earth by NOAA Type post Author Neil Thomas Date May 20, 2022 CategoriesBiologyCosmologyFaith & ScienceFine-tuningPhysical Sciences Tagged , astrophysicists, atheism, bioengineering, brain, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, cytology, demiurge, Democritus, Denis Diderot, earth, Erasmus Darwin, human eye, humankind, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, natural selection, nature, Paul Davies, philosophes, physiology, Plato, purpose, teleology, The Miracle of Man, theism, William Paley In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism Neil Thomas May 20, 2022 Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences 8 In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›
Denis Diderot Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 6, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, daemons, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Fates, gods, harpies, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, satyrs, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? Neil Thomas January 6, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace Type post Author Neil Thomas Date December 13, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignLinguistics Tagged , Abrahamic faiths, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Antony Flew, Bonfire of the Vanities, brain, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Communism, Cristian Bandea, cytology, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, East Germany, Erasmus Darwin, Eric Metaxas, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, philosophes, religion, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), Tom Wolfe, William Paley Toward a New Natural Theology Neil Thomas December 13, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics 9 Alfred Wallace was arguing his position from simple logic rather than on the authority of revelation from any of the Abrahamic faiths. Read More ›
