Tag: Rome

^{Type
post

Date
July 20, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, body, Carthage, Christians, Denyse O'Leary, Evodius, Gennadius, human mind, human soul, immortality, Kurt Gödel, logical positivism, mathematicians, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, North Africa, philosophy, physicians, Plato, Roman Empire, Rome, The Immortal Mind}

An Ancient Argument for the Soul

_{Science and Culture
July 20, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aqueducts, block printing, China, Christianity, Egypt, Europe, Galileo Galilei, gunpowder, historians, history, Isaac Newton, James Tour, Johannes Kepler, pyramids, roads, Robert Boyle, Rome, scientific revolution, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

2}

"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 18, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, adultery, Christianity, Genesis, Greco-Roman world, husbands, image of God, marriage, men, paganism, prostitutes, Rodney Stark, Romans, Rome, salvation, slaves, wives, women}

Women and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 18, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

In this historical context, the Christian view of marriage was nothing short of revolutionary. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

16}

It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cesare Lombroso, criminologists, Darwinism, evolution, Greece, ID the Future, intelligent design, Italians, Italy, philosophers, podcast, Racism, Rome, Turin, Western civilization}

John West in Turin, Italy: Intelligent Design’s Roots and Fruit

_{Science and Culture
November 30, 2022

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

1}

West celebrates Italy’s contributions to civilization but also calls attention to Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who championed various racist ideas. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

18}

Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Christianity, creator, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, Europe, evolution, Germany, history, Jesus Christ, materialism, Naturphilosophie, New Testament, nihilism, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Rome, teleology, world spirit}

As Many Opinions as There Are Men?

_{Neil Thomas
March 22, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

4}

The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
John G. West

Date
February 18, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, African Americans, American South, athens, Canada, Chicago, Detroit, First Baptist Church, Hispanics, history, Human Zoos, Illinois, Martin Luther King Day, Racism, Rome, scientific racism, Seattle, Texas, whites, youtube}

Seeking Racial Reconciliation in the Heart of Texas at a Screening of Human Zoos

_{John G. West
February 18, 2019

Bioethics

4}

I love taking part in post-screening discussions of my films because I get to hear and learn from perspectives different from my own. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Mike Keas

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, Age of Illumination, Age of Reason, Alhazen, Arabic, atheism, Bede, cathedrals, Euclid, eyeglasses, Galileo Galilei, Greek, Ibn al-Haytham, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Latin, Literal Commentary on Genesis, Myth of the Dark Ages, Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Rome, Saint Augustine, scientific revolution, The Nature of Things, Unbelievable, universities, University of Bologna, Walter Laird}

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

_{Mike Keas
January 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 9, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Andrew McDiarmid, cosmos, earth, extraterrestrials, Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno, humans, ID the Future, Michael Keas, podcast, popularizers, Rome, scientists, storytelling, Unbelievable}

Science and Storytelling

_{David Klinghoffer
January 9, 2019

Physical Sciences

2}

To advance the false conception that science is always in conflict with religious tradition, some influential scientists and science popularizers tell us stories about the past and the present. Read More ›