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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, conflict myth, Erasmus Darwin, history, materialism, New Atheists, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Malthus, UK Parliament}

Darwin and the “New Atheists”

_{Neil Thomas
October 4, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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There is surely some historical irony in the attempt to enlist Charles Darwin posthumously in defense of the atheist cause. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, Democritus, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin}

Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic

_{Neil Thomas
June 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, atomists, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Christian de Duve, Christianity, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Erasmus Darwin, logos, magical thinking, philosophers, supernatural, Thomas Malthus}

Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking

_{Neil Thomas
March 6, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee. Read More ›

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Date
February 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, entropy, evolution, genes, learning, natural selection, Neural Networks, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Theodosius Dobzhansky, thermodynamics, Thomas Malthus, universe, vitalism}

Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics

_{Science & Culture
February 24, 2022

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

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This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Americas, Australia, barbarians, blacks, cannibalism, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, gorilla, humans, Isaac Newton, On the Origin of Species, population, Racism, slaughter, slavery, Thomas Malthus, war, William Shakespeare, women}

Racism Serves Darwinism, Darwinism Serves Racism

_{Richard Weikart
February 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Racism was not just an incidental part of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Rather Darwin considered racial inequality crucial evidence for his theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 12, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, birds, Black Lives Matter, Breitbart, cancel culture, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, colonialism, Europeans, evolution, evolutionary theory, Galápagos Islands, ID the Future, London, Natural History Museum, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Fitzroy, science, scientific racism, strengths and weaknesses, T.H. Huxley, Thomas Malthus}

Cancel Darwin? No, But Do Recognize How Evolution Boosted Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
July 12, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Cancel culture is becoming surreal. Or should I say even more surreal? “Exotic birds” are now judged to be offensive. What next? Read More ›

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Date
January 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, alleles, animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, ecosystems, foresight, fossil record, macroevolution, materialism, molecular machines, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, oxygen, pseudoscience, selection pressure, teleology, Thomas Malthus, University of Texas}

Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?

_{Science & Culture
January 5, 2021

Evolution

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An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Africans, birds, Black Lives Matter, Breitbart, cancel culture, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, colonialism, Europeans, evolution, evolutionary theory, Galápagos Islands, ID the Future, London, Natural History Museum, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Fitzroy, science, scientific racism, strengths and weaknesses, T.H. Huxley, Thomas Malthus}

Cancel Darwin? No, But Do Recognize How Evolution Boosted Racism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution, Science Education

3}

Cancel culture is becoming surreal. Or should I say even more surreal? “Exotic birds” are now judged to be offensive. What next? Read More ›

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Date
May 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, evolution, ID the Future, information, Ira Berkowitz, Jerusalem, Lee Spetner, MIT, Neo-Darwinism, Not by Chance, physicists, podcast, propaganda, The Evolution Revolution, Thomas Malthus}

Why Neo-Darwinism Is Less than a Theory

_{Science & Culture
May 17, 2020

Evolution

1}

Lee Spetner also argues that, contrary to Darwinist propaganda, the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria demonstrates a loss of information rather than a gain. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, Charles Darwin, chicken-and-egg problem, Communism, competition, Darwinism, death, Discovery Institute, Disinherit the Wind, DNA repair, Hollywood, ID the Future, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, Thomas Malthus}

“Communism Was Welded to Darwinism”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Origin of Life

2}

You never know who’s going to turn up at Q&A with Jonathan Wells and John West. Read More ›