Lucretia_committing_suicide Type post Author Richard Weikart Date August 19, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Australia, Christianity, disabilities, happiness, Hebrews, Hippocratic Oath, human life, infanticide, Jews, Judeo-Christian tradition, Melbourne, physicians, Plato, Plutarch, poison, Pythagoras, Socrates, Stoics, The Republic Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity Richard Weikart August 19, 2024 Bioethics, Medicine 13 Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›
Sisyphus Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date February 11, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , blind chance, Bruce Alberts, defining science, demarcation criteria, Epicureans, evolution, experimental science, intellectual necessity argument, intelligent design, Johannes Kepler, Michael Ruse, Müller cells, Nathan Lents, National Academy of Sciences, naturalism, New York Times, Oregon State University, retina, scientific method, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Sisyphus, Stoics, teleology Is Intelligent Design a Science Stopper? Cornelius Hunter February 11, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 Consider a box with an internal divider such that the box is divided into two separate compartments, A and B. Read More ›
Phoenix-Fabelwesen Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 26, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhilosophy Tagged , Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Cicero, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Galen, intelligent design, Lucretius, Mind of God, Phoenix, Plato, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stoics, Thomas Aquinas, Weltanschauung The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism Neil Thomas January 26, 2022 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy 8 What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes. Read More ›
Royal Society entrance Type post Author Brian Miller Date June 2, 2021 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , atomism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Craig Keener, Darrel Falk, Dogs, Epicureanism, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, fossil record, Francisco Ayala, genes, genetic variations, Gerd Müller, Hugo de Vries, intelligent design, materialists, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, Paul, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, Stoics, The Blind Watchmaker Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting Brian Miller June 2, 2021 Evolution 7 The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›