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Neil Thomas

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Denyse O'Leary
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November 9, 2021
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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Author of Taking Leave of Darwin on common descent of humans and apes

Denyse O'Leary
November 9, 2021
Human evolution, Intelligent Design
Neil Thomas: Darwin envisioned the momentous ontological change from ape to man occurring gradually by way of “transitional forms.” Pressing far too heavily on time itself as a causal agent, he advanced the untestable hypothesis that the changes will have taken place during the billions of years separating our present day from the supposed time of the first appearance of a simian species on our planet. Since this theory is beyond the reach of any possible empirical test, it requires alternative evidential back-up. Unfortunately for Darwin there is a dearth of any fossil evidence establishing the claimed evolutionary “missing links,” ... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 17, 2021
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Darwinism
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Hank Hanegraff interviews Neil Thomas – a skeptic who is skeptical of Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2021
Darwinism
From podcast info: As he studied the work of Darwin’s defenders, he found himself encountering tactics eerily similar to the methods of political brainwashing he had studied as a scholar. Thomas felt impelled to write a book as a sort of warning call to humanity: “Beware! You have been fooled!” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 30, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Here’s a podcast with Neil Thomas on his new book, Taking Leave of Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
August 30, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
From podcast introduction: An erudite and settled Darwinist living comfortably in a thoroughly secular English academic culture, Thomas nevertheless came to reject Darwinian materialism and, as he insists, did so on purely rationalist grounds. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 28, 2021
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Books of interest, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
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Privileged Address: An excerpt from Neil Thomas’s Taking Leave of Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
August 28, 2021
Books of interest, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design
Neil Thomas: Through the lens of a celestial telescope, it is true, one can see little but the unfeeling immensity of that unremittingly hostile universe invoked by [Bertrand] Russell, but if we look around us here on Earth we can see a planet which seems entirely discontinuous with the rest of the observable cosmos and abounding in a host of benign phenomena so numerous that they tend to go largely unnoticed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 22, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, rhetoric
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Rationalist skeptic comments on the manipulative arguments for Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
August 22, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, rhetoric
Part of an excerpt from his new book, Taking Leave of Darwin (2021). Science historian Michael Flannery, among others, have often noted this style of Darwinian argument. One might say that it relies on the public’s willingness to be persuaded of the proposition far more on the innate intellectual value of the proposition. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 2, 2021
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Atheism, Books of interest, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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One day, a longtime agnostic suddenly realized that Darwinism couldn’t be true

Denyse O'Leary
August 2, 2021
Atheism, Books of interest, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Witt: "Critics of intelligent design will have a hard time maligning Thomas as a “creationist in a cheap tuxedo.” He isn’t religious and is a longtime member of the British Rationalist Association, a group known for religious skepticism." Read More ›