Author: Michael Flannery
What Darwin Would Say If He Could Speak to Us Today: Another Perspective
Darwin came to his ideas not by the evidence but by an a priori ideology that dictated methodological naturalism and philosophical materialism.
A New Book Poses the Question: At the Birth of Modern Science, Was Darwin Present — or AWOL?
In The Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura J. Snyder feels compelled to make the founders of modern science Darwin-friendly.
What Textbooks Say about the “Randomness” at the Heart of Darwinian Theory
Plantinga has decided that modern evolution is whatever he chooses to make it by citing his favored sources.
A New Study of James Clerk Maxwell Attempts to Defend His Design Argument at the Expense of Intelligent Design
Maxwell breathed new life into natural theology and helped in some measure to sustain the design argument in Victorian England.
When Science Becomes Polemic: My Reply to Jerry Coyne’s Interview at Skeptiko
There appear to be only two possible reasons for Wallace’s conspicuous absence in Jerry Coyne’s book.
Michael Shermer Concedes! Wallace Was an ID Advocate!
Yet, having conceded, Shermer goes on to move the goalpost.
Hyper-evolutionism, Scientism, and the Mythical Wallace of Michael Shermer
Shermer’s term “Intelligent Design creationism” signals his own misjudgment in the matter, namely, that ID is creationism.
Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate — and a Prescient Figure in the History of Science
Wallace emerges from Darwin’s shadow, leaving Darwinian “explanations” looking less like progress and more like — to borrow Wendell Berry’s phrase — “leapfrogging into the dark.”
Darwin Plagiarism Charge Resurfaces in Time for Alfred Russel Wallace Documentary and Debate
Wallace would break from Darwin in 1869 and develop a theory of intelligent evolution that in many ways presaged modern intelligent design theory.
Alfred Russel Wallace, in Anticipating Intelligent Design, Did Not Reprise Paley
Speaking at the Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, Michael Flannery fielded a challenge that deserves some extended comment.