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Photo: Salmonella enterica, by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Näsvall et al. Demonstrates the Effectiveness of Intelligent Design

The dispute started when a review in Science proposed the 2012 article by Näsvall et al. as evidence against Mike Behe’s book Darwin Devolves. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer: Looking Forward to Highlights of 2019, a Big Year for ID

Even Richard Dawkins can’t quite shake the idea that a sublime world like ours doesn’t come about by chance, but by “intelligent design.” Read More ›
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Photo: Wistar Institute, by Jeffrey M. Vinocur [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY 2.5 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Wistar: Been There, Done That

Would it, in fact, be enlightening if you were to sit a Darwinist and a Darwin skeptic together for an extended period of time to talk and see what really lies at the bottom of their disagreement? Read More ›
David Berlinski
Photo: David Berlinski, “Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions,” via YouTube/Hoover Institution.

Listen: Berlinski on the Limits of Rational Discourse

I asked David Berlinski and Michael Denton what they thought was the nub of intellectual difference between a thoughtful Darwkin skeptic and a thoughtful Darwin loyalist. Read More ›
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Photo: Charles Darwin, by Julia Margaret Cameron [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Why Does Darwinism Hang On?

David Berlinski notes, “Applying Darwinian principles to problems of this level of complexity is like putting a Band-Aid on a wound caused by an atomic weapon.” Read More ›
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In a Weekend Doubleheader, Gilder Warns of Silicon Valley and the Planetary Zoo

Reducing the stature and dignity of human beings to that of animals is the whole project of Darwinism or materialism, whatever you want to call it, in a nutshell. Read More ›
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Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct

Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
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Eyes in a Twinkling? 

In 1991, Richard Dawkins gave a lecture arguing that natural selection can produce complex and seemingly improbable features by an accumulation of small, incremental steps. Read More ›
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Photo: David Berlinski and Mark Levin, screen shot from Fox News, “David Berlinski on the link between evolution, science and progressivism.”

With Mark Levin on Fox News, David Berlinski Talks “Evolution, Science, Progressivism”

I think it’s the first time I’ve heard a discussion of the second of law thermodynamics on cable TV. Read More ›

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