Tag: Alfred Russel Wallace

Maropeng Besucherzentrum im Craddle of Human Kind in Südafrika

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 3, 2023

Categorized
Human Origins

Tagged
Alfred Russel Wallace, celibacy, Darwin, Darwinism, DNA survival machines, Evolution, evolution of religion, evolutionary dead-ends, evolutionary psychology, human evolution, Johannesburg, just-so stories, love for enemies, Maropeng Museum, martyrs, non-adaptive behavior, non-kin altruism, Oscar Schindler, Philip Skell, Richard Dawkins, Robert Broom, selfish gene, South Africa}

Casey Luskin Debunks One Museum’s Evolutionary Propaganda

_{Casey Luskin

March 3, 2023

Human Origins}

On today’s ID the Future, geologist Casey Luskin continues to unpack his recently published essay against the view that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors via blind Darwinian processes. In this episode he shares his experience of walking into the fossil hall at South Africa’s famous Maropeng Museum and immediately being confronted by a piece of shameless materialist propaganda, a Richard Dawkins quotation prominently displayed as part of a floor-to-ceiling display. The quotation insisted that humans are essentially just DNA survival machines. Luskin says, not so fast, and points out the various ways such a view fails to explain important aspects of human behavior, including altruistic behavior toward non-kin. Luskin and host Eric Anderson also call evolutionary theory to task for being Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 26, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, DNA, Eugenics, Evolution, Fossil Record, Francesco Redi, Francis Crick, Friedrich Max Müller, genetic information, Hank Hanegraaff, human evolution, human language, Intelligent Design, Louis Pasteur, Mel Brooks, Michael Denton, Miller-Urey experiment, Naturalism, Neil Thomas, Neo-Darwinism, Niles Eldredge, Noam Chomsky, origin of life, panspermia, physicalism, Punctuated Equilibrium, Richard Dawkins, Robert Cornish, Scopes Monkey Trial, sociobiology, spontaneous generation, Stephen J. Gould, substance dualism, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Descent of Man, Theism, Thomas Aquinas, William Harvey, Young Frankenstein}

Neil Thomas Talks Darwin, Aquinas, OOL and … Young Frankenstein

_{Neil Thomas

January 26, 2022

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, Taking Leave of Darwin author Neil Thomas continues a lively conversation with radio host Hank Hanegraaff. In this second in a three-part series, the two touch on the fossil record’s challenge to Darwinism, Gould and Eldredge’s rescue attempt, the question of whether Darwin’s best known contemporary defender is dishonest or merely self-deluded, the wishful thinking surrounding origin-of-life studies, the failed attempts to reduce the mind to mere brain chemistry, and the morally repugnant pro-eugenics ideas rooted in Darwinism and touted in the textbook at the heart of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. The conversation is posted here by permission of Hank Hanegraaff. Get Neil Thomas’s book here.

^{Type
post

Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 24, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
agnosticism, Alfred Russel Wallace, Atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, fundamentalism, George Eliot, God, H.M.S. Beagle, Hank Hanegraaff, Hank Unplugged, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lawrence Krauss, Mary Ann Evans, memes, methodological materialism, Miracles, Naturalism, Neil Thomas, Oxford University, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, Satan, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Thomas Huxley, vera causa, William Empson, William Thorpe}

Neil Thomas and Hank Hanegraaff: An Autopsy for Darwinism

_{Neil Thomas

January 24, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future kicks off a three-part series featuring Taking Leave of Darwin author Neil Thomas interviewed by radio host Hank Hanegraaff. In this first part, Hanegraaff begins by lauding Thomas’s book and underscoring how influential Darwin’s theory of evolution has been on Western culture. Then Thomas sketches the cultural milieu and individual motivations that he’s convinced drew Darwin toward his formulation of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Here the focus is not on the various evidential weaknesses of Darwin’s theory (which Thomas does cover in his book) but on a question that puzzled Thomas once he became convinced of just how evidentially weak the case for Darwinism was: How was it that a theory so poorly Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 12, 2021

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Alfred Russel Wallace, Anglo-centrism, anti-slavery, Applied Eugenics, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, craniology, craniometry, domestic breeding, Eugenics, forced sterilization, Francis Galton, Fuegians, genocide, human exceptionalism, human zoos, imago dei, indigenous peoples, intrinsic human dignity, Malay Archipelago, Martin Luther King Jr., nature red in tooth and claw, Paul Popenoe, philosophical materialism, pigeon breeding, racial equality, racism, Roswell Hill Johnson, scientific racism, slavery, The Descent of Man, The Origin of Species, World of Life}

Darwin Day Meets Black History Month–Sparks Fly

_{Michael Flannery

February 12, 2021

Ethics}

As a nod to Darwin Day and Black History Month, today’s ID the Future spotlights the racist thinking of Charles Darwin and the scientific racism fueled by Darwinism and Darwinists. As guest and historian Michael Flannery notes, Darwin’s followers, including Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton, took ideas found in Darwin’s work and used them to vigorously press the case for eugenics, a movement that came to have a horrifying impact for American blacks in the twentieth century, including for thousands who were subjected to forced sterilizations. Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Flannery says no, and on two counts. First, he says that the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Read More ›

An old man shakes hands with an opponent in a game of chess, he lost and acknowledges it.

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 21, 2020

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Evolution, fine-tuning, human exceptionalism, methodological materialism, methodological naturalism, Natural Selection, Natural Theology, Privileged Planet, science and religion, teleology, Theism, Theory of Evolution, Tom Wolfe, World of Life}

Alfred Russel Wallace and His Friendly Battle with Darwin

_{Michael Flannery

October 21, 2020

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, science historian Michael Flannery continues discussing his newly updated Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russel Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Wallace was co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by random variation and natural selection, but unlike Darwin he saw teleology or purpose as essential to life’s history, and a teleological view as essential to the life sciences. According to Flannery, Wallace’s views on the nature of the cell, the special attributes of humans, the irreducible nature of life, and the fine tuning of the universe hold up well today. He and Darwin disagreed on much of this, yet they maintained mutual respect. In this, Flannery says, the two are a great model Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 14, 2020

Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design

Tagged
Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropocentrism, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian theism, Darwinian theists, Darwinism, Deborah Haarsma, Edinburgh University, Edmund Grant, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Collins, freethinkers, HMS Beagle, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Janet Brown, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mind/body, philosophical materialism, Plinian Society, Theism, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Tom Wolfe, William Dembski, World of Life}

Michael Flannery on the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

_{Michael Flannery

October 14, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design}

On this episode of ID the Future, science historian and host Michael Keas talks with fellow science historian Michael Flannery about the newly updated book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russell Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine as a teenager. It was there that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, the worldview that laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Flannery also speaks of Alfred Russel Wallace’s “intelligent evolution” and how it differs from Darwinism and from today’s theistic evolution — what Flannery prefers to call “Darwinian theism.”