Enlightenment – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

29Oct 2025 by Post

Neil Thomas on the Internal Flaws and Historical Roots of Darwinism

anti-theism, atomism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, deification, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, False Messiah, ID The Future, Lucritianism, materialistic philosophy, natural selection, Neil Thomas, Podcast, scientific materialism, Sir Charles Lyell, uniformitarianism

It might surprise you to learn that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection did not triumph on scientific grounds alone. Source

28Apr 2025 by Post

The Myth of the Dark Ages

Apologetics, Christianity, Dark Ages, Enlightenment, Gospel, historical apologetics, IsChristianityTrue.Wordpress.com, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Medieval, Middle Ages, New Atheism, Steve Lee, Theology and Christian Apologetics

We have all heard about the “Dark Ages” between 500 AD and 1500 AD. Some common descriptions include: “There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”[1] – Ruth Hurmence Green (1915-1981, a notable atheist with the publication of her book The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide to the Bible). Joseph Lewis in An Atheist Manifesto claims that “If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you must guard your liberty, and you must not let the church get control of your government. If you do, you will lose the greatest legacy ever bequeathed to the human race—intellectual freedom.” Jeffrey…

03Feb 2025 by Post

Ross Douthat on the Universe’s Remarkable Intelligibility

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christianity, consensus, Darwinism, Enlightenment, faith and science, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Jonah Goldberg, Jordan Peterson, Living in Wonder, Matthew Crawford, New York Times, Paul Kingsnorth, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, public intellectuals, religion, Return of the God Hypothesis, Rod Dreher, Stephen Meyer, The Privileged Planet, universe

Suppose that science itself suffers if we preemptively rule out certain conclusions. Source

17Jan 2024 by Post

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

1984, Ahmed Shaheed, antiracists, Bertrand Russell, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, Enlightenment, Evolution, free speech, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, Keith Stanovich, law enforcement, mental fertility, mental immunity, mental integrity, mental privacy, Miracles (book), neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, nudging, Simon McCarthy-Jones, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, thoughtspeech, Timothy Stratton, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson

An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Source

17Sep 2023 by Post

Slavery and the Image of God

abolitionists, Arabs, Charles Finney, China, Christianity, Civil War, Culture & Ethics, Enlightenment, Evangelical Christians, Faith & Science, For the Glory of God, Gregory of Nyssa, image of God, Native Americans, Oberlin College, religious revivals, Rodney Stark, safe houses, Second Great Awakening, slaveholders, slavery, Underground Railroad, United States

America is the only country on Earth to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a war to end slavery. Source

11Oct 2022 by Post

Theory in Crisis? Redefining Science

American Astronomical Society, Biophysical Society, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Dark Ages, Enlightenment, Evolution, gravity, Harvey Lodish, Intelligent Design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (series), Isaac Newton, materialism, Modern Age, Nature (journal), Philosophy of Science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Walther Nernst

Scientific revolutions are often marked by disputes over the “standard that distinguishes a real scientific solution from a mere metaphysical speculation.” Source

06Oct 2022 by Post

Darwin and the Loss of the Enlightenment Paradigm

Albert Einstein, Brights, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, Faith & Science, Max Planck, New Atheists, Peter Vorzimmer, quantum weirdness, superstition, Werner Heisenberg, Worldview

As a plethora of books, articles, and TV programs have recently intoned, our almost complete ignorance of the nature of ultimate reality has been laid bare. Source

05Oct 2022 by Post

Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

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Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Source

26Mar 2022 by Post