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All photos in this article are by David Coppedge.

At the Smithsonian, the Nation’s Museum, It’s All Darwin, All the Time

At the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Charles Darwin dominates almost every exhibit.  Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury Library, by Bs0u10e01 / CC BY-SA.

To Avoid Debate, Darwinists at the AAAS Would Even Censor…Darwin

A modest proposal to teach evolution the way Darwin treated his own theory has “no support” from one of the world’s most powerful scientific organizations. Read More ›
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<p>Photo: Statue of Agassiz buried in the pavement, 1906, Stanford University, by Frank Davey / Public domain.</p>

Louis Agassiz: Some Additional Thoughts

Despite the significance of Agassiz’s scientific accomplishments, his heavy historical baggage cannot be lightly discarded or ignored. Read More ›
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Who Really Inherited Darwin’s Legacy? You Might Be Surprised to Learn

Design scientists like Michael Behe have, in an important way, been following in Darwin’s path for decades. Read More ›
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<p>Photo: Walcott Quary, Burgess Shale, by Mark A. Wilson (Wilson44691) (Department of Geology, The College of Wooster) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons.</p>

Meyer, Medved on Great Minds — Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale, and More

Animal forms come and go, but what links them as “acts of mind” (as Agassiz put it) is a “continuity of ideas,” not, says Meyer, the physical continuity that Darwin asserted. Read More ›

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