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18Mar 2023 by Post

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charleston, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Evolution, history, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Lake Superior, primary sources, Races of Man, Racism, Royal Agricultural College, S. P. Woodward, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States

Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Source

19Feb 2023 by Post

Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

African Christians, Chinua Achebe, colonialism, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Ebed-melech, Emily Whitten, Evolution, Great Britain, history, imperialism, Jeremiah, John West, missionaries, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, paganism, Podcast, scientific racism, scripture, Things Fall Apart, World Magazine

Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Source

12Feb 2023 by Post

Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design

Abraham Lincoln, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin Day, Darwinists, Discovery Institute, Ethical Humanist Society, Evolution, Green Bay, history, Intelligent Design, James Keyes, Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny, public schools, Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Springfield, The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, William Herndon, William Paley

Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today. Source

26Jan 2023 by Post

Another Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist for Intelligent Design

Arthur Holly Compton, Bible, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, Chemistry, Compton effect, Discovery Institute Press, electromagnetic radiation, faith, Foresight (book), Gerhard Ertl, history, Intelligent Design, John B. Gurdon, John West, light, Marcos Eberlin, Museum of the Bible, Nobel Prize, physics, science, UC Berkeley, universe, Washington DC

Compton joins fellow Nobel Prize-winning physicists Charles Townes (UC Berkeley) and Brian Josephson (Cambridge University) who have likewise come out for ID. Source

27Dec 2022 by Post

Louis Pasteur, in Memoriam

anthrax, crucifix, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Dole, Edward Lister, Faith & Science, France, history, origin of life, Robert Koch, Roman Catholics, spontaneous generation, stroke, uremia, Vaccines, veterinarians

“There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.” Source

14Dec 2022 by Post

A Miraculous Existence

A Big Bang in a Little Room, Adolf Hitler, advanced life, aliens, astronomers, Atheism, atheists, bacteria, Bible, capillary action, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), cosmic microwave background radiation, Creation, deaths, divine action, faith, Faith & Science, galaxies, Goldilocks, history, human genome, hydrogen, Ivy League, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, miracles, New England Patriots, Physics, Earth & Space, Super Bowl, surface tension, theoretical physics, touchdown, universe, wackiness, Zeeya Merali

Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it? Source

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

13Sep 2022 by Post

Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip

Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, Evolution, Faith & Science, fertilization, Francis Henry Egerton, history, insects, Intelligent Design, John Murray, Linnean Society, monograph, natural selection, orchids, Origin of Species, Sigmund Freud, William Paley

It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. Source

04Sep 2022 by Post

Acquainting Darwin with the Fossil Record

Books, Charles Darwin, Evolution, fantasy, Fiction, fossil record, fossils, history, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Nickell John Romjue, novella, Podcast

Romjue’s Darwin explores what we’ve learned about the fossil record since Darwin’s time on Earth — and it’s not what he expects. Source

18Aug 2022 by Post

West: Theistic Evolution and the Gnostic Heresy

biology, Christianity, Creation, Culture, demiurge, Discovery Institute, Early Church, Evolution, Faith & Science, gnosticism, God and Evolution, Gospel of John, history, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John West, Judaism, Lucretius, Mandaeism, materialists, Richard Dawkins, Talmud, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith

Friendliness to a design perspective might seem to be natural for any theist. Yet a prickly disdain is strangely common, especially among religious academics. Source

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