From Charles Darwin, a Wonderful Lesson in Character

_{David Klinghoffer
August 29, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If such a break between old colleagues happened now, the results would likely be very different. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 28, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anaxagoras, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, evolution, history, Insiders Briefing, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, On the Origin of Species, Pajaro Dunes meeting, Robert Crowther, Tacoma, Wistar Symposium}

Flannery: Who Is the “Godfather” of Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 28, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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One of the untruths told about the modern ID movement is that it has no history to speak of. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 20, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, black holes, Charles Darwin, evidence, evolution, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, just-so stories, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast, principle of utility, Wesley Smith}

Wallace Broke with Darwin Over Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
August 20, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Alfred Russel Wallace reasoned his way to affirmation of an “Overruling Intelligence” — intelligent design by another name — at work in the long history of life. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, climate change, cosmos, evolution, history, ID the Future, ideology, intelligent design, life, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, Nature's Prophet, Overruling Intelligence, podcast, science, science denial, scientism, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Alabama Press, X Club}

New Book Offers History as an Antidote to the Paralyzing “Science-Denier” Label

_{David Klinghoffer
August 9, 2018

Intelligent Design

3}

Whether the subject is evolution or climate change, the purpose of accusing someone of “science-denial” is to keep that person in line. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 7, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, agent, causation, common descent, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, John West, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, Michael Flannery, natural selection, Nature's Prophet, Neoplatonism, principle of utility, relic principle, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Edge of Evolution, The World of Life, theology}

Intelligent Design and Alfred Russel Wallace’s Intelligent Evolution — Different Yet the Same

_{Michael Flannery
August 7, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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Wallace was the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection. He later broke with Darwin over the question of teleology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinism, Ethan Siegel, evolution, Forbes, general relativity, inheritance, intelligent design, Michael Flannery, Newtonian mechanics, predictions, Royal Society, Sarah Chaffee, selection, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution}

For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

_{David Klinghoffer
August 1, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 30, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, HMS Beagle, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates}

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

_{Michael Flannery
July 30, 2018

Botany, Evolution

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Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Center for Science and Culture, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, intelligent design, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, natural selection, natural theology, Nature's Prophet, socialism, special creation, stereotypes, theism, theistic evolution, University of Alabama Press, Victorian England}

Alfred Russel Wallace — New Biography Is a Defeater for Arguments for Theistic Evolution

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2018

Intelligent Design

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Wallace broke with Darwin and became, arguably, the founding father of modern intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Alfred Russel Wallace, architecture, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Darwinian theory, evolution, exaptation, human beings, ID the Future, intelligence, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, natural selection, podcast, Richard Lewontin, spandrel, Stephen Jay Gould, textbook, The Human Instinct, Wesley Smith}

Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning

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Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.” Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 2, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Darwinism, Edward Blyth, Erasmus Darwin, fossil record, HMS Beagle, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, macroevolution, Michael Flannery, microevolution, Richard Dawkins, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Yuri Filipchenko}

A.N. Wilson Is Right: “Darwin Was Wrong”

_{Jonathan Wells
February 2, 2018

Evolution

5}

I enjoyed Wilson's book, and I learned a lot from it. But this biography’s most interesting feature is its firm rejection of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Read More ›