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Charles Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?

Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing. Read More ›
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Image credit: Gustave Doré, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›
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Frankenstein
Image: Illustration from Frankenstein, 1922, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Google books) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›
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Photo: Tropidogyne pentaptera, a mid Cretaceous flower from Burmese amber, by Oregon State University (license CC BY-SA 2.0), via Flickr.

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Jurassic Flowering Plants After All?

This year a new article by Silvestro et al. (2021), "Fossil data support a pre-Cretaceous origin of flowering plants," was published. Read More ›
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Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Photo: Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace, by George Beccaloni / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue Shrewsbury
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

What We Can Learn from Darwin

We hear a lot of talk these days about “following the science.” But science rarely speaks with one unified voice. Read More ›
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Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…

“How close are we to understanding the origin of life?” a radio moderator asked atheist biologist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›
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Mystery of Life’s Origin — Intelligent Design’s Original Edition, Greatly Expanded, on Sale Now!

How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›
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Not Oparin’s Coacervates Again!

After Oparin’s coacervate theory was presented in the 1920s, it was dismissed as unworkable. Now, coacervates are back in style. Read More ›

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