Next week the Texas State Board of Education will consider the state's science requirement that students "analyze and evaluate" core tenets of Darwinian evolution.
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Given Wallace's subsequent turn to proto-intelligent design, imagine if thing had been different at the start and Wallace had received all due credit for the theory he and Darwin conceived.
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A colleague has pointed out to me a 2007 article in the Times that I hadn't previously seen. The author is Smithsonian paleobiologist Douglas H. Erwin.
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Mary Shelley said she got the idea for Frankenstein from experiments by Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus, giving life to a piece of spaghetti.
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In other contexts, a really obnoxious heckler would be dragged out of the auditorium by security personnel. In the contemporary academic setting, he's the object of deference.
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It would be very welcome to hear some smart Darwinist call up the show and try to tell Steve Meyer why the case his book makes doesn't hold water. Step right up, guys.
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As a journalist who has covered the intelligent design controversy for 12 years, I ended up asking a question repeatedly: What exactly has materialism done for science?
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