Author: Neil Thomas
Existentialist Science: Darwin as Proto-Absurdist
The existentialist story might arguably start with Charles Darwin and his conception of the chance evolution of life.
The Fate of Evolution Without Natural Selection
It does not seem reasonable to accept the veridical status of evolution on the basis of what an increasing number of scientists perceive as a “dodgy dossier.”
Darwin and the Problem of Pain
For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake.
Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse
This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation.
On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation
The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset,