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Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
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).

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Bicentennial Year: A Cause for Celebration and for Sadness

All the hyperbole shows the fix is in — Wallace has been made safe for scientism and Darwinian reductionism. The academy can breathe easy. Read More ›
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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
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Photo: An orangutan, by entrecon, via Pixabay.

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›
Percival Lowell
Photo: Percival Lowell in 1914, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Man on the Moon and Martian Canals

French writer Bernard de Fontenelle expressed the belief that there really was a man on the moon — and a whole civilisation to boot, if you please. Read More ›
beetles-of-alfred-russel-wallace
Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr

Wallace’s Frenemies: A Lesson from Phillip Johnson

We can add Andrew Berry to the list of those quick to praise Alfred Wallace on certain matters but equally quick to condemn him on others. Read More ›
orangutan

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

In an excerpt from his new book, Professor Flannery identifies Darwin's principal failing in developing his theory. Read More ›
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Water — One of the Oldest Design Arguments

Today scientists marvel at the many associations among water chemistry, the environment, and life. Read More ›

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