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Taking Leave of Darwin (2021)

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
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 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 ›