Tag: Taking Leave of Darwin

Charles Darwin observing wildlife in the Galápagos Islands, surrounded by lush flora and fauna, including giant tortoises, birds, and exotic plants, symbolizing evolution

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinists, Enlightenment, evolution, False Messiah, intellectuals, modern science, natural selection, nature, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, Reductionism, Samuel Wilberforce, scientific discoveries, skepticism, survival of the fittest, Taking Leave of Darwin, Victorian England, William Wordsworth}

He Taught Darwinism for Decades (Then Changed His Mind)

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 30, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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English Romantic poet William Wordsworth provided a philosophical barrier against reductionist views of life like those of Darwin. Read More ›

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Date
October 21, 2025

Categories
Culture
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alistair McKitterick, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, David Galloway, Enlightenment, False Messiah, French Revolution, George Eliot, history, James Le Fanu, literature, Marxism, Michael Behe, Neil Thomas, Paul Beasley-Murray, Peter Jeavons, philosophy of nature, purpose, purposeless, Steve Fuller, Steve Laufmann, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Prelude, Victorian England, William Wordsworth}

New Book: Darwinism as “The God That Failed”

_{Science and Culture
October 21, 2025

Culture, Evolution, History of Science

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There is hope for renewal in a flanking movement against materialism — the spiritually charged philosophy of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Read More ›

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Date
May 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, A. N. Whitehead, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, epigenetics, footnotes, gadgets, genome, gizmos, hard science, immaterial genome, Neil Thomas, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Taking Leave of Darwin}

If Richard Sternberg Is Right, That Would Be the End of Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
May 22, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, History of Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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If the genome is not wholly material, then a fully material process like Darwinian evolution cannot even gain full access to it. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Revolution, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Cicero, Darwinism, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, faith and science, Friedrich Engels, Galen, Lucretius, Matt Ridley, natural selection, Plato, Stephen Greenblatt, Taking Leave of Darwin, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus}

Three Thousand Years of Darwinism

_{Neil Thomas
December 23, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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I began to suspect that Darwinism was being taught at school in a somewhat philosophically decontextualized way, lacking historical background. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheism, Bertrand Russell, Darwinian materialism, evolution, geneticists, ID the Future, John Updike, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic humanism}

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

_{Science and Culture
January 14, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Read More ›

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Date
February 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Christianity, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinism, Epicurus, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, logical positivism, Neil Thomas, nihilism, Orthodox Christians, podcast, rationalists, Richard Dawkins, Taking Leave of Darwin, theism}

Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists

_{Science and Culture
February 5, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Hanegraaff and Thomas provide a model of how two men with differing positions on Christianity can challenge each other while remaining cordial. Read More ›

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Date
January 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, brain chemistry, Civic Biology, Darwinism, eugenics, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, ID the Future, Niles Eldredge, podcast, Scopes Monkey Trial, Stephen Jay Gould, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Neil Thomas: Darwin, Aquinas, and the Origin of Life

_{Science and Culture
January 30, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Thomas and radio host Hank Hanegraaff discuss the fossil record’s challenge to Darwinism, Gould and Eldredge’s rescue attempt, and more. Read More ›

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Date
January 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, academy, autopsy, Charles Darwin, culture, Darwinism, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, natural selection, Neil Thomas, podcast, Taking Leave of Darwin, Western culture}

Neil Thomas: An Autopsy of Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 24, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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How was it that a theory so poorly supported by the evidence nevertheless came to dominate the academy? Read More ›

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Date
September 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academicians, bacteria, bacteriophages, CRISPR, Darwinian theory, DNA, electrons, Escherichia coli, evolution, geometry, intelligent design, light bulb, molecular machines, nanowires, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, oxygen, pili, PNAS, Science Daily, seafloor, soil, Spain, Switzerland, Taking Leave of Darwin, Uppsala University, Yale University}

Tricks of the Cell Trade

_{Science and Culture
September 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Cell processes are quick and efficient. They can even solve geometry problems in the dark without eyes or brains. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 30, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Church of England, Darwinism, Douglas Murray, evolutionary theory, faith, humanism, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, Neil Thomas, New New Atheists, Old New Atheists, Taking Leave of Darwin, theism}

Darwin Skeptic Neil Thomas Call Himself “A Christian with a Small ‘C’”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 30, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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At the end of a discussion of evolutionary theory’s “crypto-animism” and more, Thomas protests the Church of England’s 2008 apology to Charles Darwin. Read More ›