Tag: Thomas Hardy

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, Anaximander, Anaximenes, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, Melanie Phillips, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, New Synthesis, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Victorian period, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alec Ryrie, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Das Wesen des Christentums, Death and the Ploughman, faith, James Thomson, literature, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Ruse, Percy Shelley, religion, Richard Swinburne, The Essence of Christianity, Thomas Hardy, William Blake}

Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job

_{Neil Thomas
March 3, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
December 12, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", 2001: A Space Odyssey, civilization, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Émile Zola, evolution, extinction, George Eliot, H.G. Wells, humans, Jack London, literature, mutations, natural science, natural selection, naturalism, Robert Ardrey, science fiction, sheep, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Crane, The Time Machine, Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Hardy, violence}

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

_{Jonathan Witt
December 12, 2020

Bioethics

3}

The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alfred Tennyson, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, élan vital, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, Harvard School of Public Health, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Joseph Conrad, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Salvador Luria, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn}

The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 7, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

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The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›