Tag: Wheaton College

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 21, 2025

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Evolution
Tagged
, adventure, art, beauty, betrayal, Beyond the Story, Christina Bieber Lake, death, duty, Englishmen, evolution, fiction, honor, human life, human nature, James Matthew Wilson, Kenneth Grahame, literature, love, machines, meaning, movies, philosophers, pornography, Roger Scruton, romance, scientism, social media, The Wind in the Willows, TV shows, universe, Wheaton College}

In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense

_{Peter Biles
August 21, 2025

Cultural Anthropology, Evolution

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Some assume humanity’s longstanding appreciation for art, be it literary, visual, or musical, has evolutionary groundings. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 24, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beauty, Beauty Is Your Destiny, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creation, design, Epicureans, human eye, intelligent design, modern life, natural world, On the Incarnation, Philip Ryken, Plato, Platonism, poem, randomness, scientific truth, St. Athanasius, symphony, theology, Wheaton College}

For Christmas, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

_{Peter Biles
December 24, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, beauty, Beauty Is Your Destiny, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, creation, design, Epicureans, human eye, intelligent design, modern life, natural world, On the Incarnation, Philip Ryken, Plato, Platonism, poem, randomness, scientific truth, St. Athanasius, symphony, theology, Wheaton College}

For Advent, Reading St. Athanasius on the Beauty of the Universe

_{Peter Biles
December 14, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Besides the prose itself being so pleasing to read, these thoughts reaffirm some of my main reasons for believing this universe is the product of a Mind. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, C.S. Lewis, chatbot, ChatGPT, CNET, consciousness, Edgar Allan Poe, human uniqueness, literature, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Stephen King, stories, Walter Bradley Center, Wheaton College}

Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

_{Peter Biles
August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 27, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, “Learning in War-Time”, Adolf Hitler, Anglo-Irish writers, anxiety, Belfast, bleach, Boxen, C.S. Lewis, Castlereagh Hills, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cherry blossoms, churches, coronavirus, Europe, fear, grocery stores, gyms, hand sanitizer, isolation, Letters of C.S. Lewis, Marion Wade Center, movie theaters, Nazis, Northern Ireland, pandemic, restaurants, rubbing alcohol, Seattle, The Weight of Glory, toilet paper, tuberculosis, University of Washington, W.H. Lewis, war, Wheaton College, World War I, World War II, worry}

#6 Story of 2020: Amid a Pandemic, Wisdom from C. S. Lewis

_{John G. West
December 27, 2020

Faith & Science

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Lewis's advice seems eerily applicable to our own situation, just substitute “pandemic” for “war.” Read More ›

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Author
Cameron Wybrow

Date
August 18, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, debunking, England, English, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gaius, Hinduism, literature, Men without Chests, pedagogy, Plato, propaganda, Saint Augustine, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sublime, Tao, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, The Conditioners, The Green Book, Titius, values, Wheaton College}

The Main Argument of The Abolition of Man

_{Cameron Wybrow
August 18, 2020

Bioethics, Philosophy

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Lewis foresees a class of men called “the Conditioners.” The Conditioners have “seen through” all attempts to ground behaviour in any ultimate truth. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __k-review, “Learning in War-Time”, Adolf Hitler, Anglo-Irish writers, anxiety, Belfast, bleach, Boxen, C.S. Lewis, Castlereagh Hills, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cherry blossoms, churches, coronavirus, Europe, fear, grocery stores, gyms, hand sanitizer, isolation, Letters of C.S. Lewis, Marion Wade Center, movie theaters, Nazis, Northern Ireland, pandemic, restaurants, rubbing alcohol, Seattle, The Weight of Glory, toilet paper, tuberculosis, University of Washington, W.H. Lewis, war, Wheaton College, World War I, World War II, worry}

Living Amid a Pandemic: Wisdom from C.S. Lewis

_{John G. West
March 20, 2020

Bioethics

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Remember the admonition of C.S. Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.” Read More ›

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Date
October 21, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Bible, Bronx Zoo, Charles H. Wright Museum, Chicago, Christianity, Daniel Reeves, Darwinian theory, Detroit, documentary, eugenics, Freedom’s Journal Institute, history, Human Zoos, James Gordon, John West, Martin Luther King Jr., Ohio, Ota Benga, Racism, Social Darwinism, Wheaton College}

With Screenings in Chicago, New Documentary Human Zoos Prompts Discussion, Debate

_{Science and Culture
October 21, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution

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The film shows how a number of Christians led opposition to both human zoos and eugenics. Read More ›