Tag: beauty
New Thoughts on Evolution: Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.
“The scales on the wings of a moth,” he said quietly, “have no explanation in Evolution. They belong to Beauty, and Beauty is a spiritual mystery.”
Why Scientific Materialism Is No Match for Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
These abstract concepts don’t derive from the material world, yet we feel impoverished without them; they’re foundations of a life worth living.
Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One
Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics.
For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology
Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes.
War on Math Becomes a Fight Over Textbooks
At some point, it might be reasonable to ask, why is religion forbidden while politics is allowed to invade everything?