IMG4947-2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date July 6, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , ancient Greeks, Augustan age, Before Philosophy, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creation stories, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, France, Genesis, Great Britain, Henri Frankfort, Higher Criticism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, lion, Marcion of Sinope, Mary Midgley, materialists, metaphors, mythographers, natural philosophers, natural selection, oak tree, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, parchment, petroglyphs, religion, Sir Charles Lyell, The Origin of Society, The Temple of Nature, transmutation, Victorian England, whale Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness Neil Thomas July 6, 2026 Evolution, Faith & Science 13 One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›
DarwinTree1837cropped-2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date March 16, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionPhilosophyScientific Reasoning Tagged , Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications Neil Thomas March 16, 2026 Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning 14 Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›
charles-robert-darwin-bust-sculpture-english-naturalist-geol-621698975-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Andrew McDiarmid Date October 29, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , atomism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, deification, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, faith and science, False Messiah, ID the Future, materialistic philosophy, natural selection, Neil Thomas, podcast, scientific materialism, Sir Charles Lyell, uniformitarianism Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws and Historical Roots of Darwinism Andrew McDiarmid October 29, 2025 Evolution, Faith & Science 3 It might surprise you to learn that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection did not triumph on scientific grounds alone. Read More ›
CharlesDarwinScientificBadass4896956109 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date October 5, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionScientific Reasoning Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, James Barham, Lucretianism, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart Neil Thomas October 5, 2025 Evolution, Scientific Reasoning 5 Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›
