Tag: Charles Lyell

Hybrid Biotechnology - Biomimicry - Abstract Illustration

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Author
James Tour

Date
September 16, 2020

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__edited, abduction, abiogenesis, Brian Miller, causal adequacy, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, complex specified information, dissipation theorems, Inference to the Best Explanation, intelligent agency, intelligent causes, Intelligent Design, Jeremy England, origin of life, second law of thermodynamics}

James Tour and Stephen Meyer on the Origin of Life, Pt. 2

_{James Tour

September 16, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, James M. Tour and Stephen C. Meyer begin a discussion about the hard problems facing researchers trying to discover how the first life could have come about naturalistically. Meyer is the director of the Center for Science and Culture; Tour is a world-renowned synthetic organic chemist with over 700 research publications and multiple major recognitions, including TheBestSchools.org naming him one of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today. Though he doesn’t sign on to ID theory, he says he’s sympathetic with the idea, and certainly not impressed with any naturalistic explanations for the origin of life. In this first of a three-part series, they explore problems ranging from the extreme improbabilities associated with protein assembly, to what precisely has gone missing in the nanosecond when a cell dies. The episode is excerpted from a longer interview Dr. Tour conducted with Meyer as part of his excellent new video series The Science & Faith Podcast: Follow the Evidence.

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 22, 2018

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__edited, Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Natural Selection, Nature’s Prophet, teleology}

Humanity and Teleology: Darwin, Wallace and Lyell Debate Natural Selection

_{Michael Flannery

August 22, 2018

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On this episode of ID the Future, Michael Flannery, historian of science and emeritus professor from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discusses how Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection, broke with Darwin by arguing that the rise of humans required something more than blind evolutionary mechanisms. As Flannery also notes, the great geologist Charles Lyell sided with Wallace in the debate, to Darwin’s dismay. Listen in to learn more about Lyell’s idea of uniformity, the pro-Darwinian origins of the journal Nature, and how professional dissent from Darwinism has existed and persisted ever since Darwin’s Origin of the Species. And to dive deeper still, check out Flannery’s new book on Wallace, Nature’s Prophet.

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 8, 2018

Categorized
Evolution

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__edited, Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Evolution, history of intelligent design, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Natural Selection, Nature’s Prophet, overruling intelligence, Scientism, Theory of Evolution, Thomas Henry Huxley}

Nature’s Prophet, Pt. 1: How Alfred Russel Wallace Embraced Intelligent Design

_{Michael Flannery

August 8, 2018

Evolution}

On this episode of ID the Future, historian Michael Flannery discusses his just-released book Nature’s Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology. It’s the intellectual history of Wallace, who is credited with independently propounding the the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin insisted on a purely materialistic version of the theory, but as Wallace studied the evidence, he grew convinced that intelligent design also played a role in the history of life, particularly in the origin of humans. Though not a religious person, he broke with the rising scientism of his day to argue that there must be some “overruling intelligence” behind nature.