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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The Darwinian view of the human race as domesticated animals in need of breeding is well entrenched in the halls of science and government.
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PZ's advocacy of atheism keeps his readers carefully in the dark about what smart, sincere religious people believe, and what other ideas (like ID) that he doesn't like are about.
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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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