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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

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

31Aug 2022 by Post

Behe Debates the Limits of Darwinian Evolution

Benedictine College, Catholicism, common descent, debates, Evolution, genus, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Macroevolution, Michael Behe, Michael Ramage, nature, Pat Flynn, Philosophy for the People, Thomas Aquinas, Thomistic philosophy

Any evolution beyond the level of genus — for instance, the separate families containing cats and dogs — cannot be achieved through mindless Darwinian mechanisms. Source

27Aug 2022 by Post

Paul Nelson: Listen to Nature for Her Answers

Andrew McDiarmid, biology, Caltech, experimentation, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, naturalism, Naturalistic Parabola, nature, Paul Nelson, Podcast, science, scientists, testing

If we listen and test, nature can keep revealing herself in surprising ways, which is what makes science so fun. Source

31Jul 2022 by Post

John West: Darwin’s Corrosive Idea

Culture, Culture & Ethics, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, Evolution, human dignity, ID The Future, John West, materialism, nature, Podcast, political science, scientific racism, Western culture

Darwin’s materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism. Source

20May 2022 by Post

In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

astrophysicists, Atheism, bioengineering, biology, brain, Charles Darwin, Copernican Revolution, cosmology, cytology, demiurge, Democritus, Denis Diderot, earth, Erasmus Darwin, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, human eye, humankind, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, natural selection, nature, Paul Davies, philosophes, Physics, Earth & Space, physiology, Plato, purpose, teleology, The Miracle of Man, theism, William Paley

In his new book, Michael Denton is particularly strong on what he terms “the post-Copernican delusion of mankind’s cosmic irrelevance.” Source

11May 2022 by Post

Watch: Science Reveals the “Miracle of Man”

accident, biology, chance, cosmos, Creation, environment, Evidence, fine-tuning, fitness, human beings, Intelligent Design, Michael Denton, nature, Physics, Earth & Space, science, The Miracle of Man, universe

Biologist Michael Denton shows how science has reversed the depressive trend of the past five centuries. Source

10Mar 2022 by Post

Stuart Burgess: Biology’s Designs Tutor Our Top Engineers

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, biology, Bristol University, engineer, Engineering, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fish, Great Britain, human knee, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, jaws, linkage mechanisms, misuse, nature, University of Cambridge, wear and tear

The human knee is still well ahead of what even the most advanced human engineers have managed. Source

24Jan 2022 by Post

Theists vs. Atheists: Who Has the Burden of Proof?

atheists, debate, Divine Hiddenness argument, Evidence, faith, Faith & Science, ground of existence, ignorance, immunity idol, logic, Matt Dillahunty, nature, Neuroscience & Mind, theists, tribal immunity

Because Dillahunty refuses to debate me again, I’ll address his claim that atheists have no burden of proof in the debate over God’s existence in this post. Source

05Jan 2022 by Post

Does Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?

Acts, Augustus, beliefs, block universe, determinism, free will, John Bell, laws of nature, materialists, nature, Neuroscience & Mind, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, Superdeterminism, universe

The conventional view of nature held by materialists is that all acts are wholly determined by the laws of nature. Source

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