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Event Report: Design and the Designer

There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Read More ›
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University of Chicago
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The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Read More ›
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Jonathan Wells: Scientific Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn argued from the history of science that reigning scientific paradigms do not give way gently and rationally before new and conflicting evidence. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943)
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Fun Game: Ask Your Darwinist Friends, “Guess Who Said This?”

Earlier this month, Michael Flannery and John West discussed the legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) on the occasion of his birthday. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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If Alfred Russel Wallace Were Alive Today

Says our colleague Professor Flannery, “I have little doubt that if Wallace were alive today he would be an ID theorist of the first order.” Read More ›
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Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace

Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon. Read More ›
Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition
Image: Galileo Facing the Roman Inquisition, by Cristiano Banti / Public domain.

Logan Paul Gage: “Our Galileo Complex”

How did science, of all things, come to be a vehicle for virtue signaling, a virtual religion, with insiders and outsiders, the damned and the saved? Read More ›
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Intelligent Design and COVID-19: Take a Seat for This Criticism

Intelligent design scientists, Adam Shapiro thinks, could redeem ID as being “apolitical” precisely by playing politics with science. Read More ›
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Portrait of Galileo Galilei and his telescope
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Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design

As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus. Read More ›
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Galileo Myth Goes Marching On

He lived out his life at his comfortable rural estate, Villa Il Gioiello, on the hillside outskirts of Florence. Read More ›

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