Tag: problem of pain

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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, Daniel Dennett, deism, Discovery Institute Press, Down House, ectoplasm, Edward Aveling, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Francis Bacon, Jacques Monod, Karl Marx, Lamarckism, Lawrence Krauss, Lisbon earthquake, Meister Eckhart, natural selection, New Atheists, Noam Chomsky, philosophy, phlogiston, Plato, problem of pain, Pyrrho, quantum physics, Sigmund Freud, skepticism, Steve Taylor, Thomas Aquinas, truth, Unmoved Mover, Virginia, Werner Heisenberg}

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
Neil Thomas

Date
September 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Enlightenment, evil, John Henry Newman, John Herschel, John Milton, John Ray, methodological naturalism, Natural Theology (book), On the Origin of Species, Paradise Lost, problem of pain, suffering, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, theodicy, William Paley}

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

_{Neil Thomas
September 11, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 19, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Geology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrobiologists, cancer, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, earthquakes, factories, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, novels, problem of pain, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet, trade-offs, young adults}

Novel for Young Adults Highlights the Problem of Pain

_{Granville Sewell
June 19, 2024

Faith & Science, Geology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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For most people, the main issue in the debate pitting design versus Darwinism is not scientific, but the problem of pain. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 28, 2022

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Brave New World, business, C.S. Lewis, chemotherapy, freedom, grief, intelligent design, Jews, literature, love, Melissa Wehmann Sewell, music, pain, poetry, problem of pain, suffering, Utopia}

Intelligent Design and the Value of Suffering

_{Granville Sewell
November 28, 2022

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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After she realized she had lost her battle with cancer, my wife Melissa wrote a letter to our children. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 27, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Batsell Barrett Baxter, human beings, intelligent design, interdependence, loneliness, love, marriage, problem of pain, relationships}

Intelligent Design and the Interdependence of Human Lives

_{Granville Sewell
November 27, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

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The male-female relationship is truly a masterpiece of intelligent design, when it works as it was intended to work. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
November 23, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, corruption, crime, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, drug addiction, drunk driving, free will, Inquisition, jesus, Mere Christianity, Nazi Germany, parents, problem of pain, Racism, war}

Intelligent Design and Man’s Free Will

_{Granville Sewell
November 23, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Why do a husband and wife decide to have a child? A toy doll requires much less work. Read More ›

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Date
July 13, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", Angus Menuge, C.S. Lewis, Discovery Institute, dysteleology, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, natural law, Oxford University, problem of pain, Victor Reppert}

Why C. S. Lewis Rejected the “Argument from Undesign”

_{Science & Culture
July 13, 2020

Intelligent Design

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One contribution Lewis made to the intelligent design project wasn’t a specific argument but the example he set. Read More ›