11Nov 2021 by Post

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Charles Darwin, Chemistry, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series), Louis Pasteur, macromutations, Mars, micromutations, Niles Eldredge, paleontology, Paul Davies, sociobiologists, sociobiology, Stanley Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Steve Stewart-Williams, Viking mission, Whack-a-Mole, William Harvey
Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Source
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06Oct 2021 by Post

Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”

biology, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, convergence, Evolution, evolutionary theory, fossils, geologists, Harvest House, homology, ID The Future, innovations, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, molecular phylogeny, natural selection, Podcast, random mutations, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith
Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found. Source
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04Oct 2021 by Post

“Stuck in the Late 19th Century”: Andrew Klavan, Stephen Meyer on Scientific Atheism

Andrew Klavan, atheists, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Faith & Science, guilt, human beings, Intelligent Design, Karl Marx, nature, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Meyer, The Andrew Klavan Show, The Daily Wire, theism, Thomas Nagel
Darwin, Marx, and Freud are largely responsible for elaborating the outlook that sought to replace the Western theistic view. Source
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20Sep 2021 by Post

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

adaptation, Biological Emergences, biology, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Evolution, externalism, hurricane, Intelligent Design, internalism, Jerry Fodor, John Gerhard, Marc Kirschner, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, New York Times Book Review, Phreatichthys andruzzii, Pocahontas, Richard Lewontin, Robert G. B. Reid, Stephen Jay Gould, sweating, What Darwin God Wrong, William Paley
Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Source
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15Aug 2021 by Post

Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis

Canadians, Carl Jung, Charles Darwin, collective unconscious, combinatorial problem, Dan Tawfik, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, David Klinghoffer, Douglas Axe, Douglas Murray, epicycles, Faith & Science, God Hypothesis, H. Allen Orr, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Van Maren, Jordan Peterson, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, naturalism, neo-Darwinists, New New Atheists, Niall Ferguson, protein folding, Ptolemy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Tom Holland, Weizmann Institute
It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Source
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05Aug 2021 by Post

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

Anaximande, Anaximenes, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, Creation, daemons, David Hume, De Rerum Natura, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, dryads, Enlightenment, Epicurus, Evolution, Fates, genii, George Strodach, Greek gods, harpies, Intelligent Design, Iphigenia, Jesuit Pierre Gassendi, King Agamemnon, Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Poggio Braccioloni, Romans, satyrs, Stephen Greenblatt, The Art of Happiness, Thomas Creech
The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Source
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28Jul 2021 by Post

Following the Science, Doctors Joined the Nazis “In Droves”

African Americans, Africans, Alfred Hoche, Allison Hopper, Ashley K. Fernandes, biocracy, bioethicists, Bruce Chapman, Charles B. Davenport, Charles Darwin, COVID-19, Darwinists, doctors, eugenics, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Galton, Germans, history, Karl Binding, Karl Pearson, Medicine, Nazis, nurses, Ohio State University, physicians, Racism, Scientific American, scientific racism, social pandemic, sterilization, Tablet, white coat, white supremacy
There is a tendency to sanctify the medical profession, with the white coat serving as an icon of wisdom, compassion, and morality. Source
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