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Date
February 11, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Christianity, Communism, ID the Future, Matthew Arnold, miracles, Peter Robinson, podcast, Tom Holland, Uncommon Knowledge, Victorian England}

From “Dover Beach” to Wokeness and Beyond

_{Science and Culture
February 11, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Can we embrace the Christian ethical framework without belief in God, miracles, and the afterlife? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley}

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

_{Neil Thomas
January 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, eugenics, evolution, forced sterilization, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Heidelberg University, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Jacques Barzun, James Moore, Janet Browne, Joseph Stalin, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slate, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Malthus, United States, Victorian England}

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Science

10}

The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, evolutionary processes, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, On the Origin of Species, poetry, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

_{Neil Thomas
November 9, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, agnosticism, atheism, Bible, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, faith, Great Britain, nature, Psalms, theology, UK Parliament, Victorian England, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

_{Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
November 5, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bestseller, Charles Darwin, George Eliot, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, nature, poets, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)}

Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

_{Neil Thomas
November 5, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science

3}

Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, American South, ants, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Connecticut, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, On the Origin of Species, race, Racism, scientific racism, slavery, Victorian England}

Origin of Species — A Safe Book in the South?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 28, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

2}

We can assume that this writer would have been a Connecticut Yankee, a strong opponent of the South and slavery. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Edward Aveling, Erasmus Darwin, James Moore, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Matthew Arnold, On the Origin of Species, Robert Chambers, secularism, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorian England}

Darwin and the British Secularist Tradition

_{Neil Thomas
August 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science

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The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, Benjamin Wiker, chance, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Daniel Dennett, evolution, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hamlet, John Herschel, Karl Popper, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, St. George Mivart, The Blind Watchmaker, Victorian England, William Whewell}

The Art of Concealment: Darwin and Chance

_{Neil Thomas
July 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

13}

It is appropriate that Fortuna’s emblematic representation with her ubiquitous wheel should have gone on to become the prototype of the modern roulette wheel. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley}

Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons

_{Neil Thomas
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

10}

Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›