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Two Ways for ID Critics, Both Lame

As others have said before me, one of the first things you notice about ID critics is the low level of most of their critiques. Read More ›
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Razib Khan
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Razib Khan: A Geneticist and the Alt-Right

He canoodled with white supremacists, and now advises conservatives not to engage with Darwin skeptics. Read More ›
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The “Fearing Evolution” Trope

Razib Khan explains why “evolutionary biology is nothing for conservatives to fear,” since “it is one of the crowning achievements of modern Western civilization.” Read More ›
David Gelernter
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Yale’s David Gelernter: Darwin’s Doubt Is “One of the Most Important Books in a Generation”

He credits reading Meyer’s book as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” now overtaken by science. Read More ›
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Great Minds: Medved, Gelernter Ask, “What Is a Conservative?”

The hypothesis of design in nature is a great idea, none greater, that has fueled the best in culture for millennia. Read More ›
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Great Minds: Medved and Gelernter on Human Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism

The human mind is exceptional in the universe as the United States is exceptional on the face of the Earth. Read More ›
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David Gelernter: “You Need To Know Who You Are To Begin With”

Knowing who you are, where you came from, is a central purpose of education, and frankly not only in the humanities but in biology. Read More ›

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