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DownHouse
Photo: Down House, home of Charles Darwin, by Mario Modesto [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

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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Photo credit: A statue of Darwin as a young man was commissioned at Christ’s College, Cambridge University, to celebrate the Darwin bicentenary in 2009, with Prince Philip immediately to the right of Darwin. Photo by fortheloveofknowledge [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

A Darwinian Pilgrimage

Darwin still has some cachet among design advocates. In this I differ from some of my friends and colleagues. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar, via Flickr.

Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›
NGC 3603
Photo: NGC 3603, a star cluster, by NASA, ESA, R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), F. Paresce (National Institute for Astrophysics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Universities Space Research Association/Ames Research Center), the WFC3 Science Oversight Committee, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

Listen: Intelligent Design, Atheism, and Nonsense of a High Order

Rabbi Moshe Averick answers the who-designed-the-designer objection, shows how questions about God and ID can’t be shoved aside as unimportant. Read More ›
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Photo credit: analogicus, via Pixabay.

There You Go Again, Nathan Lents

“The human eye is a well-tread [sic] example of how evolution can produce a clunky design,” writes Professor Lents. Read More ›
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Photo: Kudzu, by Norm, via flickr.

Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct

Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
Levin Berlinski
Photo: David Berlinski and Mark Levin, screen shot from Fox News, “David Berlinski on the link between evolution, science and progressivism.”

With Mark Levin on Fox News, David Berlinski Talks “Evolution, Science, Progressivism”

I think it’s the first time I’ve heard a discussion of the second of law thermodynamics on cable TV. Read More ›
Human eye
Image source: “Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes,” via Discovery Institute/YouTube.

Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?

Vertebrate eyes work reasonably well, Richard Dawkins conceded, but “it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer!” Read More ›
Darwin statue 2
Photo credit: Charles Quine, via Flickr.

What Your Biology Teacher Didn’t Tell You

Here are unauthorized answers to questions posed by Jerry Coyne's blog. Read More ›
firing squad
Photo credit: Chris Hayles [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Symposium? Or Firing Squad?

A symposium implies a diversity of perspectives with at least the reasonable hope of open minds, everyone arguing freely, and no one held back or held down while others pummel him. Read More ›

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