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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
Bespectacled Michael Behe in Green Shirt, Coat, and Cap
Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
Paul Nelson at Car Museum
Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Jonathan Witt

Topic

Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Neil Thomas
Date
November 9, 2022
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Bioethics
Faith & Science
Philosophy
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William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

Neil Thomas
November 9, 2022
Bioethics, Faith & Science, Philosophy
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Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Read More ›
Charles_Bradlaugh_Statue_Northampton
Photo: Statue of Charles Bradlaugh, Northampton, England, by en:User:Cj1340, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
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November 8, 2022
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Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

Neil Thomas
November 8, 2022
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›
William Wordsworth
Image: William Wordsworth, by William Shuter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
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November 7, 2022
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The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

Neil Thomas
November 7, 2022
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Neil Thomas
Date
November 6, 2022
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Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

Neil Thomas
November 6, 2022
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›
Lake District
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Neil Thomas
Date
November 5, 2022
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Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

Neil Thomas
November 5, 2022
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Read More ›
Tintern Abbey
Image: Tintern Abbey, by J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
Date
November 4, 2022
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Astronomy
Biology
Evolution
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Geology
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A Wordsworthian Disciple: William Hale White

Neil Thomas
November 4, 2022
Astronomy, Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Geology
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Many reported being “converted” to a Wordsworthian view of the world after reading him. Read More ›
Tintern Abbey
Photo: Tintern Abbey, by Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
Date
November 3, 2022
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Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology

Neil Thomas
November 3, 2022
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany. Read More ›
William Wordsworth
Image: William Wordsworth, by Benjamin Haydon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Neil Thomas
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November 2, 2022
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Natural Revelation and Natural Selection: Wordsworth versus Darwin

Neil Thomas
November 2, 2022
Bioethics, Faith & Science
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It has long been recognized that the many hymns to Nature in the poetic works of William Wordsworth (1770-1850) convey an implicit belief in natural theology. Read More ›

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