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A Darwinist Worries about Darwinian Rhetoric

Jack Scanlan, Australian blogger and contributor to Darwinist group blog Panda’s Thumb, picks up on Casey Luskin’s comments here about anti-ID rhetoric and adds an unintentionally humorous suggestion for ID critics.

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Josh Rosenau’s “Potemkin” Arguments

Earlier this year, Josh Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) apparently felt the need to find a way to deal with the fact that Discovery Institute is funding scientific research that challenges neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

Rallying to Darwin’s Defense: Robert J. Richards and the Historical Record

Richards argues that "Darwinian evolutionary theory held no special place within the community of biologists supportive of National Socialism...and officials in that party utterly rejected Darwinian theory." Read More ›

The Uncivil Style of Intelligent Design Critics

I'm going to let ENV readers in on a little secret: When many of us in the intelligent design (ID) movement read the arguments coming from our critics, we're surprised at their low quality and style. Read More ›
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Radio cabin on air. Microphone and light.
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Stephen Meyer Debates Keith Fox on Premier Radio UK

Fox acknowledges what philosopher Thomas Nagel calls the "fiendishly difficult problem" of the origin of life, but he seems to think that, given time, we'll sort it all out. Read More ›

SETI Astronomer Says Life’s “Not All That Special” Even as His Own Program Suggests Otherwise

SETI Institute has yet to detect any echo of extra-terrestial intelligence. That's a big part of the reason that SETI had to shut down, for lack of funding, its Allen Telescope Array. Read More ›
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Galileo Galilei facing Roman inquisition, abandoning his views on heliocentricism. Reenactment of an important historical moment shaping the course of science and religion.
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Please, NASA, No More Galileos!

The David Coppedge case stands as an egregious instance of intolerance toward scientific dissent, so much so that it merits your attention and action, for Caltech runs JPL under contract with NASA, a government agency, and is thus indirectly accountable to the electorate, by which I mean you, dear reader. Read More ›

Lynn Margulis, Acclaimed Biologist and Critic of Neo-Darwinism, RIP

"No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambigious evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation. Then how do new species come into being? How do cauliflowers descend from tiny, wild Mediterranean cabbagelike plants, or pigs from wild boars?" Read More ›

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