Darwin's finch Type post Author Neil Thomas Date March 7, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lamarckism, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, metaphors, Mother Nature, natural causes, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Steve Laufmann, Steve Stewart-Williams, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage Neil Thomas March 7, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 19 Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›
Darwin's shoes Type post Author Neil Thomas Date December 14, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionEvolutionary PsychologyFaith & ScienceGeneticsIntelligent Design Tagged , "God of the gaps", Communism, Cristian Bandea, Darwinism, Eric Metaxas, evolution, Freudianism, god of the details, intelligent design, Is Atheism Dead?, judge, Karl Marx, materialistic science, Mendelism, natural law, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poets, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Meyer, Steve Stewart-Williams, The Return to the God Paradigm (series) Materialist Science as Paternalistic Propaganda Neil Thomas December 14, 2021 Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Genetics, Intelligent Design 7 Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons. Read More ›
Charles Darwin Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 10, 2021 CategoriesChemistryEvolutionEvolutionary PsychologyPaleontology Tagged , Charles Darwin, evolution, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, Paul Davies, sociobiologists, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Stewart-Williams, Viking mission, William Harvey Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology) Neil Thomas November 10, 2021 Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Paleontology 7 Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›