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Photo: Mrs. Humphry Ward, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
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Bijan Nemati: What the James Webb Telescope May Discover

These glimpses may confirm our most current ideas of early cosmic history and galaxy formation, or turn them on their head. Read More ›
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Photo: Queen Victoria, by Alexander Bassano, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith 

Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Spencer, by Vas Panagiotopoulos [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. Read More ›
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More Dangers of Totalitarian Science

George Gilder raises concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) — but not the usual economic ones. Read More ›
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Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance

The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process. Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky Joins Discovery Institute as New Senior Fellow

“I’ve long admired Discovery’s courageous work on intelligent design,” said Olasky. Read More ›
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Photo: Francis Collins, by National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from Bethesda, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

John West: COVID Vaccine Misinformation from Francis Collins

I’ve been shocked by how otherwise thoughtful people assume that physicians and other experts like Collins, those with the loudest media voices, are reliable. Read More ›
James Webb Space Telescope
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A Webb Telescope Tour with Space Telescope Expert Bijan Nemati

The NASA telescope has been successfully launched into space and has reached its destination, known as the Lagrange Point 2. Read More ›
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Photo: Colorado blue columbine, by Tranquiligold Jin, via Flickr (cropped).

No “Hopeful Monster,” Flower Demonstrates Evolution by Subtraction

Evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, noticed something peculiar about the columbines in a region of Colorado. Read More ›

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