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19Dec 2023 by Post

Brian Miller on the Gift of Vision

Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Engineering, Engineering Research Group, Evolution, fine-tuning, human vision, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, Podcast, unguided processes, vertebrate eye, vision

Our eyes are easy to take for granted! Yet, the more we dig into this amazingly intricate system, the more thankful we become for them. Source

07Dec 2023 by Post

William Whewell: Statesman of Science

biological change, biology, causal agents, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, Philosophy of Science, Podcast, scientific inquiry, William Whewell

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

02Dec 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace: Today’s Special Anniversary

1984, Alfred Russel Wallace, biography, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Heretic, Evolution, George Orwell, history, Intelligent Design, James T. Costa, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Princeton University Press

"We may regretfully add Wallace to the Party’s list of obfuscating revisions. The good news is that the truth is still available for those who want to know." Source

25Nov 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, botany, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Evolution, H.M.S. Beagle, Intelligent Design, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates

Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Source

12Nov 2023 by Post

Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

assumptions, Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, cosmos, Daniel Dennett, earth, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, material universe, materialism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, pop science, purposelessness, science, Science Uprising, scientific materialism

The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Source

07Oct 2023 by Post

A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace

"survival of the fittest", A. P. Mead, Alfred Russel Wallace, At the Edge of History, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, liberals, Loren Eiseley, Louis Pasteur, M. R. A. Chance, Meaning, natural selection, Pithecanthropus, purpose, The World of Life, William Irwin Thompson

Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.” Source

30Sep 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

abstract thought, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, biology, Charles Darwin, Chemistry, cosmology, dance, Evolution, gaps, human beings, human uniqueness, Intelligent Design, mathematics, Michael Flannery, music, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, principle of utility, survival advantage

When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. Source

28Sep 2023 by Post

Life Without Purpose — The Fundamental Flaw

Alan Watts, Aristotle, biology, biomolecules, Charles Darwin, CHNOPS, embryogenesis, emergence, Etienne Gilson, Evolution, From Aristotle to Darwin and Back Again, function, Galileo Galilei, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, life, Life Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus, origin of life, parts, primordial soup, science of purpose, structure, telos, The Book, Thomas Aquinas, whole, Zen masters

The fundamental flaw in the conventional approach to understanding life is that we think we can fully understand the whole by looking at the individual parts. Source

22Sep 2023 by Post