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Doctor’s Diary: Inexplicable Species and the Theory of Evolution

Man has been searching for fossils, or stumbling upon them, for millennia. Read More ›
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Using Religion to Push Evolution in Public School Biology Class — What Could Go Wrong?

A much better approach would be no religion in biology class, and more science. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr.

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›
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More on Winston Ewert’s “Dependency Graph of Life” — An Important New Paper

The evolution of life mimics the evolution of software or other human technology. Read More ›
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Update: Still No Evolutionary Explanation for Human Language

“The case that human language develops step by step through natural selection is weakened by the fact that no single language gene has ever been discovered.” Read More ›
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Of Species and Software: What Is a Dependency Graph?

Wisnton Ewert has developed a model to explain the pattern of similarities in different organisms which mimics how computer applications inherit software from a diverse range of lower-level modules. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s Greatest Journey

Wallace’s formulation of evolution was quite incompatible with Darwin’s. His theory might be called intelligent evolution. Read More ›
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For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›
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Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Outsider: Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era

As I asked in a previous post: Why is Alfred Russel Wallace today a comparatively little known figure next to Darwin? Read More ›
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Geneticist: On Human-Chimp Genome Similarity, There Are “Predictions” Not “Established Fact”

Richard Buggs gives us a look inside the sausage factory where figures on the subject are calculated. Read More ›

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