Tag: spiritualism

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, religious right, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, tipping point, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

7}

Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent cause, intelligent evolution, James T. Costa, Man’s Place in the Universe, Martin Fichman, Michael Shermer, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Ross A. Slotten, Social Environment and Moral Progress, spiritualism, The Greatest Show on Earth, The World of Life, Wales, William James, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

_{Michael Flannery
December 1, 2023

Chemistry, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

15}

All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Archimedes, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, R.H. Barfield, Sherrie Lyons, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
November 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Alfred Russel Wallace took a journey Darwin could not follow. He went from natural selection to natural theology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apostasy, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, John C. Eccles, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, racial hygiene, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
October 2, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, Aldous Huxley, Annie Besant, Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Willey, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Crisis of Doubt, evolution, Madame Blavatsky, On the Origin of Species, secularism, secularists, Sherlock Holmes, spiritualism, Theosophy, Timothy Larsen, William Shakespeare}

Darwin, Group Think, and Confirmation Bias

_{Neil Thomas
August 2, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

11}

How was Darwinian theory, despite its lack of empirical support or even semblance of verisimilitude, able to advance to its present position of orthodoxy? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, apostasy, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, In Darwin’s Shadow, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, John C. Eccles, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, racial hygiene, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

5}

Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, Arthur Conan Doyle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Deborah Blum, demons, Duke of Argyll, Ernst Mayr, First Cause, Freeman Dyson, Ghost Hunters, Harvard University, John Magens Mello, Jonathan Wells, magicians, materialists, Nature's Prophet, spiritualism, Summa Theologica, T.H. Huxley, The Scientist as Rebel, The Screwtape Letters, The World of Life, Thomas Aquinas}

Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written

_{Michael Flannery
November 19, 2019

Evolution, Faith & Science

11}

Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Archimedes, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, R.H. Barfield, Sherrie Lyons, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
August 2, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›