Tag: Enlightenment
Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America
The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come.
For Darwin, Timing Was Everything
Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?
The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism
What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes.
The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment
If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it.
Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate
The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction.