Evolution

Princeton biologist Lee Silver, whose ideas on eugenics were promoted by Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik, debated intelligent design with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and mathematician William Dembski at Princeton in 2005:

Ever wonder how butterflies flash brilliant colors from their wings? It’s not done with pigment. Instead, butterflies use a trick of light that sounds like something out of Star Trek: “photonic crystals.”

In a post on July 7th I suggested that Darwinian evolution was a “scientific pip-squeak and a suit of cultural armor”. Here I would like to examine exactly how that cultural armor was historically constructed. In so doing we will see the stuff of which Darwinism is truly made. It was Phillip E. Johnson who made the astute observation that “Darwinist evolution is an imaginative story about who we are and where we came from, which is to say it is a creation myth.” (Darwin on Trial, p. 163) Using this as a starting point for understanding Darwinism as the remarkably powerful and ubiquitous phenomenon that it is in present society, it is instructive to review and assess the history Read More ›