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Darwin's voyage: exploration and discovery

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Michael Flannery

Date
April 8, 2013

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Bioethics
Evolution
History of Science
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What Would a World Without Darwin Look Like?

_{Michael Flannery
April 8, 2013

Bioethics, Evolution, History of Science

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Imagine that Darwin had fallen overboard and there was no Origin of Species or anything else from his pen. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
March 5, 2013

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace)}

Why Darwin Is Remembered More than Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
March 5, 2013

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In a real sense the issue of Wallace's status is not settled. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
January 24, 2013

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Bioethics
Evolution
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, __k-review, history}

Hijacking Alfred Russel Wallace

_{Michael Flannery
January 24, 2013

Bioethics, Evolution

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Consider David Attenborough's concern with population control. Wallace specifically and vocally denounced the population regulators of his own day. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2013

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __k-review}

Galton on Darwin and Eugenics

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2013

Bioethics, Evolution

1}

I've read many defenders of Charles Darwin who try to distance him from the eugenics movement. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 12, 2012

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, __k-review, history}

Darwinism and Stalinism

_{Michael Flannery
December 12, 2012

Bioethics, Evolution

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Biographically speaking, reading Darwin's Origin was seminal in Stalin's own march toward a godless communism. Read More ›

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Michael Flannery

Date
December 2, 2012

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Bioethics
Evolution
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, __k-review, history}

Let’s Not Be So Quick to Dismiss Paul Johnson’s Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
December 2, 2012

Bioethics, Evolution

7}

His take on Darwin's unwitting contribution to 20th-century genocide and mass murder (though certainly unintended) is more right than wrong. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 7, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace), history}

Some Thoughts on Alfred Russel Wallace 99 Years Later

_{Michael Flannery
November 7, 2012

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The co-discoverer of natural selection died on the morning of November 7, 1913, at 90 years of age. It was the end of a remarkable career. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 26, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, history}

Jacques Barzun, RIP

_{Michael Flannery
October 26, 2012

Evolution

6}

Reading his Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage was transformative for me. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 23, 2012

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, history}

Paul Johnson’s Darwin: A Review

_{Michael Flannery
October 23, 2012

Bioethics, Evolution

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Johnson's work is not strictly speaking a biography; it is a historian's assessment of modern evolutionary theory and the man behind it. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 12, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __k-review}

More on Finding Darwin’s Real God

_{Michael Flannery
October 12, 2012

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Darwin by the late 1870s began to worry about his cozy relationships with noteworthy atheists. Read More ›