Tag: progress

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 8, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, children, Christianity, creator, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, divine image, existence, freeway, How the West Won, human beings, humanity, intelligent design, Interstate 5, James Watson, laws of nature, men, Nancy Pearcey, nature, progress, reason, religion, Rodney Stark, science and faith, scientific theories, Seattle, Seattleites, slavery, sociologists, understanding, Universal Life Church, universe, Western culture, women}

Science Isn’t God, but It Does Point to God

_{David Klinghoffer
June 8, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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As you are driving on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Seattle, a home with purple floor-to-ceiling windows stands out prominently. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Asa Gray, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cosmogonism, Crotchet Castle, crotchets, David Stove, Europe, evolution, evolutionary psychology, False Messiah, fish, Francis Darwin, G. B. Müller, Heilsgeschichte, HMS Beagle, humans, James Moore, Jenny (orangutan), Lamarckian theory, Melanie Phillips, monkeys, nescience, Origin of Species, panspermia, Parousia, progress, Question Time, Richard Dawkins, S. A. Newman, sociobiology, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Malthus, Tom Wolfe, Victorians}

Paradigm Lost: Darwinism and the Idea of Human Progress

_{Neil Thomas
May 12, 2026

Evolution, History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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The notion of progress is now of course increasingly questioned, especially after what has come to be known as “the calamitous 20th century.” Read More ›

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Author
Scott Powell

Date
April 22, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, astronomy, biology, Charles Darwin, Cicero, computer code, cosmology, creator, digital symbols, discovery, DNA, fine-tuning, Florence, galactic habitable zone, Galileo Galilei, history, intelligence, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Karl Marx, living cell, Medicis, mind, Nicolaus Copernicus, Periclean Athens, physics, programmer, progress, Robert Boyle, self-destruction, The Story of Everything, theism, Thomas Huxley, war, William Shakespeare, written language}

In the Sweep of History, Two Great Competing Stories

_{Scott Powell
April 22, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

We are on the threshold of greater discovery and flourishing than ever because of a quiet, but growing reconciliation between trust in science and trust in God. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, Christopher Hitchens, cosmos, David Berlinski, Eric Metaxas, evolution, human nature, humans, mind, nobility, progress, Romans, Science After Babel, Socrates in the City, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, universe, war, wisdom}

Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 4, 2023

Evolution, Faith & Science, Technology

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Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, faith, Forrest Mims, gender, humanity, molecular biologists, molecular motors, peer review, progress, race, science, Science (journal), scientists, The Descent of Man, trust, University of North Carolina, Wesley Smith}

Repair Trust in Science? In Science Magazine, Forrest Mims Replies

_{Casey Luskin
June 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

Charles Darwin is an example of a brilliant scientist who was nonetheless an imperfect human with some false ideas. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Dallas, Darwinian theory, discrimination, gravitation, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, materialism, Nagasaki, progress, Racism, Science, scientific racism, scientism, Strength to Love}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
August 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

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Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 7, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, anti-science, Discovery Institute, experts, John West, morals, Nuremberg Code, observation, Politicians, progress, religious beliefs, scientists, technocracy, The Magician's Twin, Wesley Smith, worldview}

Bright Idea: Put Scientists in Charge Instead?

_{David Klinghoffer
January 7, 2021

Bioethics, Ethics

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Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians? Read More ›

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Date
December 7, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, cooperation, David Berlinski, ID the Future, Nazis, Peter Robinson, podcast, Pope Benedict XVI, progress, theology}

Berlinski: Evolution Toward Virtue and Progress?

_{Science & Culture
December 7, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution

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The Nazi Party, says David Berlinski, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.” Read More ›