Tag: Zeitgeist

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Alan Rayner, Albert Einstein, Antón Barba-Kay, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin, China, cooperation, COVID-19, Cultural Revolution, Denis Noble, Erasmus Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joana Xavier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Dewey, Karl Marx, Marxism, mutationism, N. S. Lyons, Neo-Darwinism, On the Origin of Species, orthogenesis, Peter Corning, Stuart Kauffman, Synergism Hypothesis, UNESCO, world government, Zeitgeist}

Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism

_{Daniel Witt
June 5, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Life Sciences

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Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alexis de Tocqueville, animals, capitalism, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Europe, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, food, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Margaret Sanger, mental climate, Modern Synthesis, Neil Thomas, On the Origin of Species, paradigm shift, population, printing press, Social Darwinism, Thomas Malthus, United States, Winston Churchill, World War II, worldview, Zeitgeist}

Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

_{Daniel Witt
June 4, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

12}

By the mid 1800s, the mental climate had shifted, and the time was ripe for a new Darwin to craft a new Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

30}

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, religious right, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, tipping point, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

7}

Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 16, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alister McGrath, Bertrand Russell, Cambridge University, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Cicero, intelligent design, John Ray, multiverse, natural theology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Plato, Richard Dawkins, St. Augustine, universe, William Paley, Zeitgeist}

On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

_{Neil Thomas
July 16, 2024

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

10}

The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, arrival of the fittest, automobile, Darwinian evolution, de novo genes, evolution, François Jacob, genes, intelligent design, molecular machines, predictions, Sleeping Beauties, tinkerer, William A. Dembski, Zeitgeist}

The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

_{Daniel Witt
June 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

12}

The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 24, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, Chile, determinism, Discovery Institute Press, free will, Michael Egnor, Michigan State University, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, railroad, readiness potential, rehabilitation, totalitarianism, Zeitgeist}

A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, batteries, carbon-based life, Charles Darwin, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness of nature, Freeman Dyson, intelligent beings, intelligent design, Kepler, magnets, Zeitgeist}

Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident

_{Michael Denton
August 17, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

4}

The unique fitness of nature for carbon-based life and intelligent beings of our biology is an empirical discovery. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 15, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Big Bang, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Edwin Hubble, faith, John Zmirak, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rube Goldberg, science, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, Zeitgeist}

A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response

_{David Klinghoffer
April 15, 2019

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

4}

“At some point during this talk, I felt a gear turn in my head.” Read More ›

Wooden Defendant Dock in Historic Courtroom Interior

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 22, 2013

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __k-review, Bernard Acworth, C.S. Lewis, common descent, Darwin Mythology, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism as religion, dogmatism, evolution, evolutionism, fallibility, hubris, inference, inferential science, intellectual humility, metaphysical naturalism, nature, paradigm shift, persistent scientific errors, Phillip E. Johnson, rhetoric, Richard Dawkins, scientism, The Magician's Twin, The Right Questions (book), undirected process, vestigial structures, Zeitgeist}

Darwin in the Dock: C.S. Lewis’s Critique of "Evolutionism"

_{John G. West
November 22, 2013

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Scientific Trustworthiness

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By highlighting the all-too-human frailties of modern science, Lewis made his most important contribution to the evolution debate. Read More ›