Tag: Charles Lyell
Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition
How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination.
“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin
“We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds.”
Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?
Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events.
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.
On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer
Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos.