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Darwin’s Heretic (Alfred Wallace)

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Wallace and Darwin: How and Why They Differed

Darwin's position as a child of privilege and his naturalistic worldview both in their different ways shaped his approach to the study of nature. Read More ›

Hyper-evolutionism, Scientism, and the Mythical Wallace of Michael Shermer

Shermer's term "Intelligent Design creationism" signals his own misjudgment in the matter, namely, that ID is creationism. Read More ›

The Natural and the Supernatural: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Nature of Science

The reason scientists do not take seriously the claims of Intelligent Design theorists today is the same reason that scientists did not take seriously Wallace's speculations about an "overarching intelligence." Read More ›

Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate — and a Prescient Figure in the History of Science

Wallace emerges from Darwin's shadow, leaving Darwinian "explanations" looking less like progress and more like -- to borrow Wendell Berry's phrase -- "leapfrogging into the dark." Read More ›
Wallace Debate

Resolved: If He Were Alive Today, Alfred Russel Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate

No religious believer, evolutionary theory's co-discoverer came to argue in terms remarkably similar to arguments made today by intelligent-design theorists. Or did he? Read More ›

Alfred Russel Wallace Was a Hyper-Evolutionist, Not an Intelligent Design Creationist

In Wallace's science there is no supernatural. There is only the natural and unexplained phenomenon yet to be incorporated into the natural sciences. Read More ›

Darwin Plagiarism Charge Resurfaces in Time for Alfred Russel Wallace Documentary and Debate

Wallace would break from Darwin in 1869 and develop a theory of intelligent evolution that in many ways presaged modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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