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Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?

The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.” Read More ›
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Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?

The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.” Read More ›
Hawking zero gravity
Hawking zero gravity
Stephen Hawking in 0-gravity. Photo credit: Jim Campbell/Aero-News Network, via Wikimedia Commons.

Meyer: Quantum Cosmology, the Multiverse, and Stephen Hawking

Newton, Kepler, and other founders of modern science were inspired to search out and find the rational order hidden in nature because they were theists. Read More ›
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger
Photo: Bust of Margaret Sanger, National Portrait Gallery, by Cliff, via Flickr (cropped).

Don’t Remove Margaret Sanger from History — Condemn Her

A month dedicated to the history of any group should not just be a sanitized feel-good propaganda version of what came before. Read More ›
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Photo: A hedgehog, by Gibe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Read More ›
Red-pea gall
Red-pea gall of gall wasp Cynips divisa (agamous generation) on oak leaf. In the autumn the galls turn brownish. The hole in the gall (below) indicates that the gall wasp has already left its home. Others leave it in springtime.

Plant Galls and Evolution: A Neglected Study

In my new contribution, I restrict myself to important facets of the historical side of plant gall research. Read More ›
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Against the Tide: The Darkening Intellectual Scene

"Once you lose the kind of stabilizing influence of rational thought and respect," says John Lennox, "then you can end up with violence, as we have seen." Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Darwin’s Worldview Shaped Darwin’s Theory

It was at Edinburgh University that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, which laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Read More ›
Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid
Photo: Thomas Reid, by Stephencdickson / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Thomas Reid — Recovering Another ID Ancestor

“There’s little doubt in my mind that Reid if he were alive today would be part of the intelligent design movement.” Read More ›
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Image: Screen shot from That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science.

C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism

I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›

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