Tag: vera causa

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 6, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioLogos, biology, causal adequacy, creative intelligence, croissants, David Hume, DNA, fine-tuning, functional specificity, God Hypothesis, God of the gaps, hieroglyphics, improbability, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, J. P. Moreland, Kentucky Derby, living systems, materialistic explanations, Michael Shermer, natural world, parsimony, philosophy, physics, Pierre-Simon Laplace, placeholder, postulations, quantum cosmology, racehorse, religious scientists, scientific advance, scribe of the gaps, Seattle Slew II, specified information, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, universe, vera causa, William Lane Craig}

Answering the God-of-the-Gaps Objection

_{Stephen C. Meyer
October 6, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Critics of intelligent design or science-based theistic arguments often cite Isaac Newton as the prime example of a scientist who made this blunder. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 15, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, ambivalence, Ann Gauger, biological complexity, biology, Charles Lyell, chemical evolution, common descent, Darwinian evolution, Duke of Argyll, evolution, First Things, Fr. Martin Hilbert, Fr. Michael Chaberek, human body, human life, infraction, Judaism, natural selection, nature, Neil Thomas, On the Genesis of Species, origin of life, Richard Owen, Roman Catholic Church, Science and Culture Today, scientists, slovenliness, St. George Mivart, Stephen M. Barr, theology, universal common descent, vera causa}

Catholicism and “Evolution,” Whatever That Means

_{David Klinghoffer
January 15, 2026

Evolution, Faith & Science

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In the book review by Stephen Barr, I count 66 mentions of “evolution” and not one of “Darwinian evolution.” 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

5}

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

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Date
October 9, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Cambrian Explosion, Darwin's Doubt, evolution, intelligent design, natural selection, phylogeny, PLOS ONE, Princeton University, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, protocells, Stephen Meyer, trilobites, University of Zurich, vera causa, worms}

Bottom-Up Bottoms Out

_{Science & Culture
October 9, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Materialist attempts to model the construction of hierarchical organization from the bottom up collapse into a heap of unanswered questions. Read More ›