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Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Photo: Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace, by George Beccaloni / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda

To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task. Read More ›
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Ralph Seelke: Remembering a Treasured Colleague

I first met you at a conference where you presented a paper on your experiment in long-term-evolution, or LTE. Read More ›
Asa Gray
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Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America

A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University. Read More ›
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Michael Behe Debates Evolution and Catholicism

Dr. Behe says that his skepticism toward neo-Darwinism stemmed purely from his scientific research. Read More ›
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Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System

The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory. Read More ›
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Michael Behe: Evolution, Devolution, Design

In Africa, having the devolutionary mutation that leaves an elephant tuskless renders the creature of no interest to elephant-slaying ivory poachers. Read More ›
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Octopus Intelligence Poses Evolutionary Convergence Conundrum

Outstandingly bright — with eyes that strikingly resemble ours — yet their ancestors split from mammals and birds 600 million years ago. Read More ›
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Language: Darwin’s Eternal Mystery

A whole host of “certified geniuses” have failed to crack the human language problem, and this must count as a blow to Darwinian ideas of evolution. Read More ›
Titanosaurus
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Prior Fitness and Dinosaurs

Michael Denton has shown that humans must be the right size to use fire and create technology. What about size limits on big animals? Read More ›
Denis Noble
Denis Noble
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Assessing Denis Noble’s (Non-ID) Critique of Darwinism

No matter what we do to the DNA of a fruit fly embryo, there are only three possible outcomes: a normal fruit fly, a defective fruit fly, or a dead fruit fly. Read More ›

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