Tag: The Descent of Man

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, Aristotle, Asa Gray, beauty, beauty problem, Charles Darwin, consciousness, cosmos, David Berlinski, Design Inference, documentary, Douglas Axe, flowers, Francis Crick, George MacDonald, George Steiner, Heraclitus, materialism, ocellus, Parts of Animals, peacock, peacock’s tail, peahen, planets, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sheldon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Salviander, sexual selection, solar system, stars, Stephen Meyer, Stratford Caldecott, The Descent of Man, The Flower-Angels, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew}

The Beauty Enigma: It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The beauty of the cosmos and of nature generally can't be explained in materialist terms. Or more positively, they prompt an inference to design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

Silhouette of ape under a starry sky with trees framing the scene in a dark and dreamy setting

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 22, 2025

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, British Rationalist Association, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinian paradigm, Darwinism, evolution, False Messiah, John Keats, Judeo-Christian tradition, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Selfish Gene, theism, There Is a God, Tom Wolfe, William Wordsworth, Woody Allen}

False Messiah: An Addendum on Darwin and Theism

_{Neil Thomas
October 22, 2025

Arts, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The standpoint of poet John Keats is certainly gaining resonance in our doubt-ridden 21st century. I for one welcome its openness to questioning and wonder. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, James Barham, Lucretianism, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa}

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2025

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

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Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley}

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

_{William A. Dembski
September 29, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›

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Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, culture, Dayton, Discovery Institute, Francis Galton, H.L. Mencken, Hollywood, Inherit the Wind, John Scopes, John West, Origin of Species, science and religion, scientific racism, scientism, Scopes trial, Tennessee, The Descent of Man, The Magician's Twin, trial lawyers, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Young Earth Creationists}

Scopes Revisited: An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears

_{Science & Culture
July 7, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

Promoted as a battle royale between science and religion — evolutionary theory versus biblical creation — in its actual content the trial was underwhelming. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, intelligence, J. B. S. Haldane, John Milton, Lord Monboddo, Mars, race, science fiction, scientific racism, scientists, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, UNESCO}

The End of Scientific Racism

_{Daniel Witt
June 24, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

J. B. S. Haldane initially subscribed to some of the racism of the era — but, to his credit, his views shifted over time as more evidence came to light. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Asia, Australia, Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, Indonesia, Isaac Newton, Lord Monboddo, man, Racism, scientific racism, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, William Shakespeare}

How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 20, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Africa, apes, Charles Darwin, common ancestry, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary theory, females, humans, Lord Monboddo, monkeys, orangutans, Racism, special creation, species, speech, tails, The Descent of Man, women}

Monkey Men: The Fables That Inspired Evolutionary Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 19, 2025

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“For, that there are men with tails,” wrote Lord Monboddo, “…is a fact so well attested that I think it cannot be doubted.” Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 17, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Bible, Charles Darwin, culture, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, prisoners, prostitutes, secularists, sex, sexual abuse, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists}

Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

_{John G. West
February 17, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

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Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Read More ›