Tag: William Whewell

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, causal agents, Charles Darwin, Christianity, ID the Future, intelligent design, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, podcast, scientific inquiry, William Whewell}

William Whewell: Statesman of Science

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 7, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Are there natural limits to biological change? Is the evidence for design in nature well founded? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Elusive Victorian, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Duprétly, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, John Tyndall, Martin Fichman, Max Horkheimer, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Paul Janet, Quarterly Review, scientism, St. George Mivart, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Britain, Down House, evolution, friendship, George Romanes, history, HMS Beagle, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, natural selection, Oxbridge, Peter Bowler, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, sociologists, Thomas Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Westminster Abbey, William Whewell}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System

_{Neil Thomas
August 24, 2022

Evolution, Science

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The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory. 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, Janus, John Herschel, Karl Popper, Lady Fortuna, Lady Luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxbridge, Richard Dawkins, St. George Mivart, The Blind Watchmaker, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Victorian England, William Whewell}

The Art of Concealment: Darwin and Chance

_{Neil Thomas
July 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, aesthetics, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elliott Sober, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, Karl Popper, materialists, methodological naturalism, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, Nature (journal), Phillip E. Johnson, philosophers, PNAS, science, selection, Summer Seminars, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Nagel, William Whewell}

Philosophers Want Back into Science

_{Science and Culture
April 11, 2019

Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 14, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
August 14, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, An Elusive Victorian, Andrew Berry, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwinian, David Hume, evolution, history, John Duprétly, John Elof Boodin, John Herschel, John Tyndall, Martin Fichman, Max Horkheimer, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Overruling Intelligence, Paul Janet, Quarterly Review, scientism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, transmutation, William James, William Whewell, X Club}

The Outsider: Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

_{Michael Flannery
August 1, 2018

Evolution, History of Science

12}

As I asked in a previous post: Why is Alfred Russel Wallace today a comparatively little known figure next to Darwin? Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, intelligent design, John Barrow, Lawrence J. Henderson, Man’s Place in the Universe, Michael Denton, NASA, Simon Conway Morris, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water, William Whewell}

Water — One of the Oldest Design Arguments

_{Science and Culture
November 30, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Today scientists marvel at the many associations among water chemistry, the environment, and life. Read More ›