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New Book: Darwinism as “The God That Failed”

There is hope for renewal in a flanking movement against materialism — the spiritually charged philosophy of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Read More ›
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Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

By the mid 1800s, the mental climate had shifted, and the time was ripe for a new Darwin to craft a new Darwinism. Read More ›
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Before Darwin — How Evolution Evolved

The soil was prepared — soon, seeds were sprouting. In roughly the third quarter of the 18th century, evolutionary theories of biology proliferated.  Read More ›
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Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›
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Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology

I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany. Read More ›
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Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›
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Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory

The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning. Read More ›
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Why Intelligent Design Had to Be the First to Face the Guillotine

In Wesley J. Smith’s phrase, in the present cultural moment, we have witnessed “the French Revolution attacking the American Revolution.” Read More ›
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#5 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Shapiro, Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›
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Ben Shapiro and David Berlinski on the Reversion to the Primitive in Modern Life

Their conversation is so full of treasures, it’s hard to distill it down to an essence. But I’ll try. Read More ›

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