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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 22, 2023

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

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
November 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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
November 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
November 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry, brain, Charles Darwin, Edinburgh, Ernst Haeckel, Genesis, Harvard University, historiography, human consciousness, Jacques Barzun, Man’s Place in the Universe, materialism, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, Phillip E. Johnson, Plinian Society, Psalms, Romans, Scripture, teleology, The Wedge of Truth, The World of Life}

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

_{Michael Flannery
October 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, 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

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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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2023

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, Darwinism, EMBO Reports, emotions, infection, intelligence, panpsychism, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, ZME Science}

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2023

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, Charles Darwin, Darwin Day in America, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Discovery Institute Press, history, intelligent design, John West, Michael Behe, natural selection, Phillip E. Johnson, teleology, The World of Life, Traipsing Into Evolution, University of Alabama, William Dembksi}

How I “Discovered” Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
September 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I certainly wouldn’t have recognized his full significance if I had not already been introduced to ID by reading Johnson, Behe, and Dembski. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 14, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, base pairs, Bayesian reasoning, BioCosmos, causal circularity, DNA, first life, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, likelihood ratio, mutations, proteins, ribozymes, RNA, RNA world, self-replication, Sy Garte, teleology}

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 14, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, teleology, teleonomy, The World of Life, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 20, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, DNA, genes, genetic code, information, Marcello Barbieri, materialism, meaning, natural selection, paradigm, private truth, public truth, teleology}

A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 20, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Brian Miller, carpenter, cosmic fine-tuning, Elie Feder, foresight, ID the Future, intelligent causation, Physics to God, podcast, purpose, rabbis, teleology, universe}

How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 16, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight? Read More ›