Tag: phlogiston

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2025

Categories
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, atheism, Basil Willey, Brights, C. S. Lewis, causality, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Deborah Lavin, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, ineffable, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Leslie Stephen, Lisbon earthquake, logomachia, Louise Mabille, Marcus du Sautoy, Meister Eckhart, Moses Maimonides, natural selection, negative theology, New Atheists, Newtonianism, Noam Chomsky, Peter Vorzimmer, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Robin Le Poidevin, Sextus Empiricus, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, The above consideration, Thomas Aquinas, truth, tsunami, Unmoved Mover, via negativa, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg, wortelos, wortlos}

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2025

History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
May 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Blaise Pasca, bleeding, caloric theory of heat, Caltech, Church of Scientism, climate change, COVID shots, Darwinian evolution, epidemiology, falsified theories, famine, geocentrism, global warming, history of science, John West, miasma theory of disease, Michael Crichton, neuroscience, phlogiston, quantum mechanics, settled science, spontaneous generation, static universe, Stephen Hawking, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, ulcers}

The Myth of “Settled Science”

_{Robert J. Marks II
May 20, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Einstein was wrong. Quantum mechanics does not follow the principle of “local causality.” God apparently does play dice with the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Denis Noble, Discovery Institute, George Church, information, intelligent design, intelligent designer, Michael Ruse, money, Moon, Perry Marshall, phlogiston, phrenology, Richard Dawkins, rockets, Silicon Valley, Stephen Meyer, William A. Dembski}

Origin of Life Challenge: $10 Million, Just Lying Around

_{Daniel Witt
January 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Technology

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This is an obvious way to judge such theories. If someone claims to know how to make something, the natural response is, “Let’s see it, then.” Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 24, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, Big Tech, Cambrian Explosion, ChatGPT4o, DNA, Francis Crick, Higgs Boson, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, James Watson, large language models, Nobel Prize, phlogiston, relativity, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, specified complexity, Steady State model, Tabby's Star, technosignatures, Wikipedia}

Artificial Intelligences Promises to Level the Playing Field for Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
June 24, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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To set the stage, I posed some questions about scientific testability in general and about the testability of the SETI research program. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, academic freedom, alchemy, commitment, ether, faith, faith and science, hypocrisy, Institute for Advanced Study, intellectual humility, obedience, overconfidence, phlogiston, phrenology, Roman Catholic, sacred cows, science and religion, simplicity, Swarthmore College, theory}

Science, Faith, and Einstein

_{William A. Dembski
June 20, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

6}

Einstein’s dictum about thinking for yourself therefore holds for faith as much as for science. It must come before commitment and obedience. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Bernard de Fontenelle, Charles Darwin, complexification, David Stove, evolution, gemmules, heredity, John Gray, meme, Percival Lowell, phlogiston, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, The Selfish Gene, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

The Dawkinsian Mythology

_{Neil Thomas
April 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 1, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amnesia, brain function, comatose, consciousness, Discovery Institute, dreams, drugs, ether, injury, machines, mechanical philosophy, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, persistent vegetative state, phlogiston, sleep, unconsciousness, Walter Bradley Center}

Seven Reasons the Soul Can’t Be Turned “Off”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 1, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Neuroscientist Michael Egnor notes that the idea of consciousness is "empty," much like the idea of "natural selection" in evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, Galen, ideology, intelligent evolution, Joseph Hooker, medicine, Overruling Intelligence, phlogiston, physical chemistry, Quarterly Review, Science, The Malay Archipelago, X Club}

What We Can Learn from Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
November 11, 2020

Evolution

4}

We hear a lot of talk these days about “following the science.” But science rarely speaks with one unified voice. Read More ›

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Date
September 14, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, Antoine Lavoisier, Heretic, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, Matti Leisola, Neo-Darwinism, phlogiston, podcast}

The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing

_{Science and Culture
September 14, 2019

Evolution

1}

Leisola and Witt also discuss the well-documented pattern of scientists defending an existing paradigm even after fresh discoveries have turned against it. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, bioengineering, Darwin's House of Cards, Douglas Axe, evolution, Finland, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Jonathan Witt, Karl Popper, Matti Leisola, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, Norman Macbeth, phlogiston, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, Tom Bethell, Undeniable (book), W. Ford Doolittle, Zombie Science (book)}

Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup

_{Science and Culture
April 13, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

When you read Matti Leispola’s account of his adventures with a persecuted enclave of Darwin skeptics, you’ll understand why he has a smile on his face. Read More ›