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Alfred Russel Wallace
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Charles Darwin’s colleague and co-discover of the theory of evolution by natural selection decamped from strict Darwinism…for intelligent design. Not nearly enough people know that. If just one new fact could be conveyed to every college student learning about the development of evolutionary theory, I’d say that should be the one. As facts go, it is extremely eloquent.

Here’s an easy way to get the news out. Share Wallace’s own words, conveyed in a brief video from Discovery Institute:

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See also my comments from last week on the subject, “Fun Game: Ask Your Darwinist Friends, ‘Guess Who Said This?’” I give the full quote there.

David Klinghoffer

Senior Fellow and Editor, Science and Culture Today
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.
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