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Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life Rediscovered

Alfred Russel Wallace is getting his due with Michael Flannery’s new book, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life.

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Playing “Science Says” Is a Political Game

This morning Discovery Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer has a piece up in Human Events detailing the problem with the oft-heard claim, “Science says . . .“ President Obama echoed an often-heard lament when he complained recently that, among Americans, “facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day.” According to distressed cultural observers, public ignorance about science is evidenced by failure to accept global warming, “animal rights,” euthanasia and Darwinian evolution.The assumption is that doubting scientists’ claims means you have divorced yourself from reality. Yet steadily accumulating stories from the scientific community itself suggest grounds for doubting that scientists all pursue truth without fear or favor. Last year’s “Climategate” email leak from the University of East Read More ›

Icons of Evolution 10th Anniversary: Paul Nelson

Display content from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy. Always display content from YouTube Open video directly At 4:38 of this interview, Paul Nelson says that the Miller-Urey experiment is incorrectly interpreted by textbooks as having “synthesized life.” What he meant to say was “the building blocks of life.” Dr. Nelson regrets the error.

Michael Behe’s New Paper in Quarterly Review of Biology Now Available for Free Download

For those of you wondering if you might be able to get your hands on Michael Behe’s latest paper (which we’ve been covering here at ENV), I have good news. “Experimental Evolution, Loss-of-Function Mutations, and ‘The First Rule of Adaptive Evolution,’” is now available as a free PDF at Behe’s Lehigh University website.

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