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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
March 15, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, American Museum of Natural History, Benjamin Wiker, Bruce Chapman, California, creationism, Darwin's House of Cards, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, evolution, Expelled (movie), fossil record, From Darwin to Hitler, intelligent design, Internet, Karl Popper, Kathie Johnson, Michael Shermer, Nazism, Pajaro Dunes, Phillip E. Johnson, punctuated equilibrium, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, Richard Weikart, Stephen Jay Gould, The American Spectator, Tom Bethell}

Our Friend, Tom Bethell

_{Jonathan Wells
March 15, 2021

Evolution

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On February 12, 2021, Tom Bethell passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness. Read More ›

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Date
January 31, 2021

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, artistry, Benjamin Wiker, carbon, ID the Future, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Phillip E. Johnson, Reductionism, scientific enterprise}

Jonathan Witt: A Cosmos Charged with Meaning, Purpose — and Genius

_{Science & Culture
January 31, 2021

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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The late Phillip Johnson called Dr. Witt's book from InterVarsity Press “a wise and witty romp through the fallacies of reductionism.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Cornell University, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

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What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Date
January 18, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, A Meaningful World, Atacama Desert, beauty, Benjamin Wiker, Burgess Shale, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Chile, China, Darwin's Doubt, DNA, evolution, Ferris Jabr, insects, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, MIT, Ohio State University, Periodic Table, sexual selection, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, water}

Early Cambrian Complexity and Other News

_{Science & Culture
January 18, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Meyer’s case for intelligent design in Darwin’s Doubt keeps getting vindicated by new fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 27, 2018

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Benjamin Wiker, Big Bang, celebrities, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, DNA, education, evolution, Explore Evolution, history, human evolution, Jerry Coyne, undergraduates, Why Evolution Is True}

To Bolster Belief in Evolution, Study Recommends Celebrity Endorsements

_{Casey Luskin
November 27, 2018

Cosmology, Evolution

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The study’s design revealed much about the motives of the investigators. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Edinburgh, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Herbert Spencer, history, James Moore, Linnean Society, Loren Eiseley, Plinian Society}

A.N. Wilson’s Charles Darwin — A Sense of Déjà Vu

_{Michael Flannery
December 20, 2017

Evolution

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Factual errors aside, the problem is I’ve heard all this before. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 28, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Benjamin Wiker, Charles Darwin, First Amendment, Hugh Hefner, John West, Louisiana Science Education Act, morality, National Review Online, relativism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, The Descent of Man, William F. Buckley Jr., Zack Kopplin}

Hugh Hefner, Charles Darwin – The Connection

_{David Klinghoffer
September 28, 2017

Bioethics, Evolution

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Hefner was a modern-day exponent of evolutionary relativism, which he restyled as the “Playboy philosophy.” Read More ›

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Author
Anika Smith

Date
May 18, 2008

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Philosophy of Science
Political Science
Tagged
, __edited, Benjamin Wiker, Communism, ideas have consequences}

10 Books That Screwed Up the World, with a Bizarre Twist

_{Anika Smith
May 18, 2008

Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy of Science, Political Science

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Benjamin Wiker’s latest book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help, is fantastic. In fact, it’s so great that even people who completely misunderstand his argument want to crib from his notes. Read More ›