09Nov 2022 by Post

William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

"survival of the fittest", Alvar Ellegard, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Ebenezer Scrooge, evolutionary processes, Faith & Science, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, Origin of Species, philosophy, poetry, Robert Ryan, Samuel Butler, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth
Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Source
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08Nov 2022 by Post

Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

brain activity, consciousness, CPR, death, Evolution, faith, Faith & Science, Grossman School of Medicine, heart, life after death, materialism, Medicine, memory retrieval, natural selection, near-death experiences, neonatal intensive care, New York University, perception, physicians, Sam Parnia, theology, thinking
Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Source
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06Nov 2022 by Post

Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

Bible, Christianity, cosmogony, Culture & Ethics, Das Heilige, earth, Faith & Science, Heaven, Hell, hierophany, Matthew Arnold, Mircea Eliade, poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, romanticism, Rudolf Otto, subconscious, The Idea of the Holy, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)
In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Source
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05Nov 2022 by Post

Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

Alexander Pope, bestseller, Britons, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Dove Cottage, F. W. H. Myers, Faith & Science, George Eliot, Guide to the Lakes, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Lake District, nature, poets, Queen Victoria, railway, Stopford Brooke, tourists, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)
Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Source
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28Oct 2022 by Post

Slaying Leviathan Conference: John West on C. S. Lewis, Scientocracy, and More

C. R. Wiley, C.S. Lewis, Central Connecticut State University, Christianity, Culture, Darwin Day in America, Discovery Institute, Evangelical Reformed Church, faith, Faith & Science, Glenn S. Sunshine, history, Human Zoos, John West, Politics, Privileged Species, Revolutionary, Rich Hamlin, scientocracy, Tacoma, The Magician’s Twin, The Politics of Revelation and Reason, Theology Pugcast, Walt Disney and Live Action
On Saturday in Tacoma, he will also discuss what we can learn about the relationship between faith and politics from American history in the 1800s. Source
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13Oct 2022 by Post

Rabbi Adam Jacobs Talks with Michael Denton about Intelligent Design

"poor design", Aish HaTorah, ankle, atheists, Big Bang, bioengineering, biological information, biology, Cambrian Explosion, Chemistry, common descent, cosmos, Culture, earth, Edward Feser, Evolution, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Judaism, kabbalah, Michael Denton, mysticism, Nathan Lents, Rabbi Adam Jacobs, Stuart Burgess, The Miracle of Man, wrist
Rabbi Jacobs, with the worldwide Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah, makes a very thoughtful conversation partner for Dr. Denton. Source
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26Sep 2022 by Post

Theoretical Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on the Deficiency of Alternative Models to Big Bang Cosmology 

Big Bang, CERN, cosmic microwave background, cosmology, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, God Hypothesis, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, Jim Hartle, Large Hadron Collider, mass-energy, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum gravity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Hawking, universe
Hossenfelder concludes that “we are facing the limits of science itself.” And the question of the universe’s origin “we’ll never be able to answer.” Source
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