Tag: Epicurus
Why Has Darwin Been Believed?
By the later 1830s educated people in England and far beyond its borders had experienced some truly convulsive existential tremors beneath their feet.
Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent Design Argument
Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms.
Is Epicurus Smiling?
Eugene Koonin pointed out that any abiogenesis scenario requires a cosmological background theory against which any local event probabilities must be evaluated.
Understanding Design Arguments: An Introduction for Catholics
What ID denies is that every feature of nature is the product of natural forces all the way down. This commitment is necessarily shared by Catholics.
Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited.