Tag: William Blake

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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, Annie Besant, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, Connop Thirlwall, David Hanke, David Newsome, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, James Henry Froude, 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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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 18, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, brains, bryozoans, corals, crystals, Design Inference, diatoms, erosion, intelligent design, Live Science, minds, natural law, Quartz, sea urchins, shells, sponge, sponges, TED talk, William Blake, wind}

Applying the Design Filter to Biological Sands

_{David Coppedge
April 18, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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If you look closely at beach sand, you may find some grains that stand out. They are shaped like spirals, stars, or striated cones. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 3, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alec Ryrie, Charles Darwin, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), Das Wesen des Christentums, Death and the Ploughman, faith, James Thomson, literature, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Ruse, Percy Shelley, religion, Richard Swinburne, The Essence of Christianity, Thomas Hardy, William Blake}

Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job

_{Neil Thomas
March 3, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
November 25, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, aliens, Alpha Centauri, black swallowtail, Every Life Is on Fire, Francis Crick, Houdini, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy England, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lego blocks, locomotives, Naturalistic Parabola, nematodes, Niels Bohr, puzzles, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Science (journal), Thanksgiving, William Blake}

Design Triangulation: My Thanksgiving Gift to All

_{Paul Nelson
November 25, 2020

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

1}

Hey — wanna see a talk that combines the following. Black swallowtail butterflies, William Harvey, snarky robotic aliens from Alpha Centauri, and more. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 22, 2020

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Adolf Grünbaum, advice, Andrew McDiarmid, atheism, dialogue, friendship, graduate students, ID the Future, intelligent design, Paul Nelson, podcast, tributes, truth-seeking, University of Pittsburgh, William Blake}

The Atheist Who Helped Shape Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
June 22, 2020

Philosophy of Science

1}

It’s wonderful to remember mentors who helped shaped us, often in ways that might have surprised the influential person if he’d known about it beforehand. Read More ›

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Date
October 24, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, airfoil, dandelion, digestive tract, engineers, evolution, filaments, Flight, forest fire, intelligent design, motors, Nature (journal), pappus, parachute, storksbill, University of Edinburgh, Velcro, vortex, William Blake}

Flight: The Genius of Seeds

_{Science and Culture
October 24, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Plant seeds come equipped to spread themselves in ways that baffle engineers. Did they invent these mechanisms by chance? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 4, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, C-SPAN, Claude Shannon, creativity, Discovery Institute, economics, eschaton, George Gilder, Google, information theory, Karl Marx, knowledge, machines, money, polymath, Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, William Blake}

Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

_{David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›