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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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Why Nature’s Prophet Had to be Written

Wallace’s greatest “heresy” was to become, after his co-discovery of natural selection, “godfather” of the modern theory of intelligent design. Read More ›
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Phillip E. Johnson: Awaking a Sleeping Giant

Part of his brilliance was in recognizing that an appropriate challenge to the reductionisms of our age required a thoroughly multidisciplinary approach. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace and Wallace’s Giant Bee — In the News

It’s not every day that Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) appears in an article linked by the Drudge Report. Read More ›
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Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, attributed to John William Beaufort (1864-1943) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Professor Michael Flannery on the Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

Professor Flannery is the author of Alfred Russel Wallace: The Rediscovered Life and an expert on Wallace’s life and scientific pursuits. Read More ›

From Charles Darwin, a Wonderful Lesson in Character

If such a break between old colleagues happened now, the results would likely be very different. Read More ›
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Flannery: Who Is the “Godfather” of Intelligent Design?

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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Wallace Broke with Darwin Over Human Exceptionalism

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

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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Photo credit: “Beetles collected in the Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace” (cropped), ©Natural History Museum, London, via Flickr.

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

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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