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How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin (series)

Taking Leave of Darwin
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How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda

After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling. Read More ›
Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin’s statue, Natural History Museum, by http://www.cgpgrey.com [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and Natural Theology

How just is the imputation of “neo-creationist” tendencies to members of the intelligent design community? Read More ›
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Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

The Stars Above Us

What Lucretius once termed in the widest sense “the nature of things” is no respecter of modern scientific conventions. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
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Photo: Charles Darwin, enthroned, by Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Fables of Evolutionary Psychology (aka Sociobiology)

Evolutionary psychologists are prone to make up just-so stories which are then passed off as being entirely veridical. Read More ›
young Darwin statue
young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Darwin’s Many Doubts

Did the admirably candid Charles Darwin himself really believe all that he wrote about evolution? Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin, in a scene from The War on Humans (screenshot).

Darwin on Trial (Again)

My attempt to disentangle this “case” forensically was to lead me on what was often a surprising journey of discovery. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Jannik - JWDShots on Unsplash.

How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin 

I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists. Read More ›

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