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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month

Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no. Read More ›
Frederick Douglass
Photo: Frederick Douglass, by George Kendall Warren, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism

One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, plaster relief by A. Bruce-Joy, via Wikimedia Commons.

Share Alfred Russel Wallace on Intelligent Design

If just one new fact could be conveyed to every college student learning about the development of evolutionary theory, I’d say that should be the one. Read More ›
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, plaster relief by A. Bruce-Joy, via Wikimedia Commons.

If Alfred Russel Wallace Were Alive Today

Says our colleague Professor Flannery, “I have little doubt that if Wallace were alive today he would be an ID theorist of the first order.” Read More ›
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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).

Who’s the Father of Intelligent Design? Find Out on Friday

One of the greatest naturalists of the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) co-discovered evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

What We Can Learn from Darwin

We hear a lot of talk these days about “following the science.” But science rarely speaks with one unified voice. Read More ›
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Image: Carl Sagan lectures to school kids, in a scene from Cosmos (screen shot).

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›
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Disagreeing Agreeably — A Timely Lesson from Darwin and Wallace

Adults across the board engage in public fights where the personal destruction of ideological enemies is always a ready weapon. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Darwin’s Worldview Shaped Darwin’s Theory

It was at Edinburgh University that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, which laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Read More ›
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Photo: Glassy carbon, by Alchemist-hp (talk) (www.pse-mendelejew.de) / FAL.

Excerpt — The Chosen Atom

Many have believed (and many still do believe) that Darwin drove teleology out of biology forever. Read More ›

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