Tag: William Paley | Page 3 | Science and Culture Today

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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

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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 ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astrophysicists, atheism, bioengineering, brain, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, demiurge, Democritus, Denis Diderot, earth, Erasmus Darwin, human eye, humankind, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, natural selection, nature, Paul Davies, philosophes, physiology, Plato, purpose, teleology, The Miracle of Man, theism, William Paley}

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

_{Neil Thomas
May 20, 2022

Biology, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences

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In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chloroplasts, Current Biology, David Wolpert, evolution, Francis Bacon, Heidelberg University, information flow, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, jumping genes, junk DNA, kinesin, mechanical philosophy, Nobel Prize, open reading frame, Prime Mover, proteins, Ribosome, Robert Boyle, robotics, Rockefeller University, Salk Institute, Santa Fe Institute, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

_{David Coppedge
May 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, evolution, fertilization, insects, intelligent design, John Murray, Linnean Society, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orchids, William Paley}

Darwin’s Most Important Book?

_{Robert Shedinger
April 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Darwin was not at all unsure about the value of his orchid book. He viewed it as presenting the most convincing case for natural selection that he could make. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Shapiro, Casey Luskin, complex and specified information, evolution, Evolution News, ID research program, intelligent design, Justin Brierley, Nobel Prize, Oxford University Press, peer-reviewed literature, science journals, William Paley}

“Is Intelligent Design Advancing?” Watch the Debate with Casey Luskin and Adam Shapiro Now

_{David Klinghoffer
March 25, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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At about 54 minutes in, Shapiro delivers a highly caricatured portrait of intelligent design, as an argument from amazement. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 16, 2021

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", adaptation, animals, behavior, biosphere, blind evolution, brown bears, Charles Darwin, convergence, dysteleology, evolution, homology, intelligent design, junk DNA, Life Sciences, microevolution, polar bears, Systems Biology, The Design Revolution, vestigial structures, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Complex Programmed Behaviors — Intelligently Designed

_{Eric Cassell
December 16, 2021

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Some discriminators don’t get us very far in deciding which is the better explanation between blind evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Antony Flew, brain, Charles Darwin, Church of England, Communism, Cristian Bandea, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, East Germany, Erasmus Darwin, Eric Metaxas, evolution, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Noam Chomsky, Peter Singer, philosophes, religion, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), Tom Wolfe, William Paley}

Toward a New Natural Theology

_{Neil Thomas
December 13, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Alfred Wallace was arguing his position from simple logic rather than on the authority of revelation from any of the Abrahamic faiths. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
October 25, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Creative Evolution, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, eyes, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, natural selection, New Atheists, Richard Dawkins, The Magician's Twin, William Paley}

Why C. S. Lewis Doubted the Creative Power of Natural Selection

_{John G. West
October 25, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Lewis first read Bergson in France during World War I while recovering from shrapnel wounds from the front-lines, and the experience on Lewis was profound. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 20, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, evolution, hurricane, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, Richard Lewontin, Stephen Jay Gould, William Paley}

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
September 20, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Read More ›

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Date
February 28, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, David Hume, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Logan Gage, natural theology, natural world, philosophers, William Paley}

Jay Richards: A Look Back at Paley and Hume

_{Science & Culture
February 28, 2021

Intelligent Design

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Dr. Richards addresses David Hume’s critique of analogical arguments like those used by William Paley. Read More ›