Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) Type post Author Neil Thomas Date June 13, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, consciousness, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, evolution, Francis Crick, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, On the Origin of Species, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind Neil Thomas June 13, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind 17 Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Read More ›
Dawkins expelled Type post Author Neil Thomas Date April 9, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent 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 ›
Darwin statue Type post Author Neil Thomas Date September 13, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, animism, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, evolution, Hesiod, James Le Fanu, Mary Midgley, materialistic science, natural selection, natural theology, Neo-Darwinism, Odysseus, On the Origin of Species, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, Samuel Wilberforce, selfish genes, Zeus The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment Neil Thomas September 13, 2021 Evolution, Faith & Science 10 If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it. Read More ›
