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Gertrude Himmelfarb

Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”

Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject. Read More ›
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Photo: Doug Axe, in “The Problem with Theistic Evolution,” via Crossway Books.

Douglas Axe on Polarized Science, the Reliability of the Design Intuition, and More

Dr. Axe continues his conversation with radio host Eric Metaxas. Read More ›
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Photo: Douglas Axe, in a scene from the series Science Uprising “DNA: The Programmer.”

Douglas Axe on the Human Element in Science

On the radio with Eric Metaxas, Dr. Axe explains how he lost his research position in Cambridge over the evolution controversy. Read More ›
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A Snail as Fast as a Bullet, and Other Darwin-Defying Marvels

You could fill up a web publication’s daily coverage just with new wonders from the world of life. Would that be expected given Darwinian assumptions? Read More ›
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NASA’s Parker Probe Kisses the Sun — And Rightly So

It’s thanks only to the fine-tuning of the laws and constants of nature that we live in a universe awash in radiation from this tiny swath of the electromagnetic spectrum — the life-permitting swath. Read More ›
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Darwinian Faith and Fetish

Andrew Berry, the Harvard biologist who conducts a Darwin pilgrimage each year for undergraduates to Darwin-related sites in England, responds to my recent post. Read More ›
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Royal Wedding Sermon Goes Fire-Maker

Did Rev. Curry read Michael Denton? Maybe not, but it sure sounds like it. 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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New Species of Fossil Dragonfly Named for ID Proponent Michael Behe

The paradigm of cladistic classification based on assumed common ancestry should be reconsidered in favor of a traditional phenetic classification based on maximum similarity. Read More ›

At the Foundations of Science: Respect and Seeking to Understand

I've been reading the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — with its interesting argument by Jefferson for design in nature as a scientific inference. Read More ›

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