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Neil Thomas

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 26, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: The battle over the human mind split two great thinkers

Denyse O'Leary
June 26, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Philosopher Neil Thomas points out how neuroscience today has undermined a purely materialist account of the mind — an unexpected role but that's what happened. Read More ›
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Eric Hedin
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May 20, 2022
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Intelligent Design
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Evolution News: In His New Book, Denton Shows How Science Leads the Charge to Theism

Eric Hedin
May 20, 2022
Intelligent Design
Thomas: Recent advances in biological science, a subject formerly proclaimed to be corrosive of metaphysical beliefs have somewhat unexpectedly become a stimulus to the emergence of new advances which endorse many of the older observations of natural theology. As astronomer Paul Davies remarked some four decades ago, “It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 12, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Neil Thomas comments on the difficulty of accommodating Darwinism to sudden origin of life

Denyse O'Leary
April 12, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Here’s a thought: If your origin of life theory works, can we reverse engineer the conditions to produce life from non-life today? If we can’t, that doesn’t prove your theory false. After all, it is very difficult to demonstrate that something “couldn’t have” happened under any circumstances whatever. But you must now rejoin the queue in your previous place… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 17, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Neil Thomas on how Darwin’s Origin of Species came to be madly adored

Denyse O'Leary
March 17, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Darwinism was never very good at explaining the world of nature as such. It provided a fashionable basis for atheism in a world otherwise dominated by finely tuned laws. Thomas provides a fine tour of the nineteenth century in which that was just the thing many were looking for. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 7, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Neil Thomas on “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking”

Denyse O'Leary
March 7, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
Thomas: The shaky logical basis of Darwin’s thinking has not gone entirely unremarked. The notion of a supposedly unintelligent yet remarkably independent “self-evolving” biosphere (like the postulation of a self-creating cosmos) presents, when dispassionately considered, an offense to logic great enough to invite attempts to square the circle. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 6, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Neil Thomas on why so many 19th century thinkers turned a blind eye to Darwinism’s problems

Denyse O'Leary
March 6, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
It’s a religion without the transcendent hitch. That’s the main reason that so many people today are impervious to the fact that illustrations of Darwinism are often just nonsense barked in Darwin’s name. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 3, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Philosophy, Science
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Neil Thomas on Darwinism’s place in the Victorian culture wars

Denyse O'Leary
March 3, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Philosophy, Science
Anyone familiar with popular science writing on evolution will see what Thomas means here. Darwinism is introduced as a hypothesis/theory but then treated as a dogma/article of faith — and (this is emotionally very important) a way of segregating the Smart People from the Yobs and Yayhoos. Appeals to science-based analysis fall on deaf ears because the dogma has become what “science” now means. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 31, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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How Newton’s model of mechanical universe paved the way for uncritical acceptance of Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
January 31, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
The thing about such models is that they receive a great deal of social support and a person who diligently enquires into the evidence, exposing defects, is treated with — at best — suspicion. Not a healthy situation for honest inquiry. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 21, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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To what extent is the science we must learn at school materialist propaganda?

Denyse O'Leary
December 21, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
Here’s a question: Given what we (hope we) know today about the origin and development of life forms, would anyone today propose neo-Darwinism (natural selection) in any of its forms as an explanation - if they hadn't already had to accept it anyway in order to get to where they are today? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 17, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Neil Thomas’s next book will examine Darwinism as a modern creation myth

Denyse O'Leary
November 17, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Thomas: "Here I will make the attempt to drill down even further to the root causes of what appeared to be the Western world’s unprecedented rejection of tried-and-tested philosophers and scientists such as Aristotle, Cicero, Plato, and the physician Galen in a strange capitulation to “out there” philosophic fantasists like Epicurus and his Roman disciple, Lucretius." Darwin came along and made it all sound like… modern science! Read More ›