Before Darwin, How Maxwell’s Intelligent Design Argument Forecast Modern ID

Alvin Plantinga, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christianity, Douglast Axe, evolutionary literature, G. K. Chesterton, history of science, Intelligent Design, James C. Rautio, James Clerk Maxwell, Katherine Dewar, Lewis Campbell, Matthew Stanley, Michael Flannery, natural theologians, naturalism, Origin of Species, poems, Select Essay Club, Stephen Meyer, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
He was well versed in the evolutionary literature as well as in design arguments from antiquity to his day. Source
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How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

Adolf Hitler, American Birth Control League, Birth Control Review, Blessed Are the Barren, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Communism, concentration camp, Culture & Ethics, Eugen Fischer, eugenics, Evolution, Garrett, Islam, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Lothrop Stoddard, Maafa 21, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King Jr., Mein Kampf, Michael Flannery, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Swahili, William Graham, World War I
American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Source
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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
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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
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Christmas Thought — Intelligent Design Is Good News that Brings Hope

Casey Luskin, Center for Science & Culture, Christmas, Christmas songs, David Berlinski, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Douglas Axe, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, John West, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Michael Flannery, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Meyer
I am sitting here listening to Christmas songs as old as I am. Doesn’t anyone write new Christmas songs? Source
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