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Date
February 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Andrew McDiarmid, Charles Darwin, Columbine High School, Darwinian racism, Darwinists, England, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, Germany, Racism, Richard Weikart, Victorians, white nationalists}

Listen: How Darwinism Fueled Nazi Racism, White Nationalism

_{Science & Culture
February 2, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Since Darwin was a peaceable Victorian gentleman and naturalist, what connection could there be between him and Hitler and contemporary white nationalism? Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, afterlife, atomism, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series), Darwinian theory, demiurge, Epicurus, evolution, gods, Greek, Latin, Lucretius, materialism, Matthew Arnold, Victorians}

Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus

_{Neil Thomas
January 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, gods, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians}

Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention?

_{Neil Thomas
January 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, creationism, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Edinburgh University, evolution, history, intelligent evolution, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, penicillin, socialism, South America, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Kuhn, Victorians, William Paley}

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

_{Michael Flannery
August 2, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›