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Image: HMS Beagle at Tierra del Fuego.

“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite. Read More ›
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surgery
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Are Transplant Doctors Causing Brain Death?

A new and highly problematic means of obtaining organs is pushing the boundaries of the “dead donor rule." Read More ›
Nectocaris
Photo credit: Martin R. Smith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Weikart: In His Own Mind, White Supremacist Gunman Was Only Following the Science

President Biden this week said it is “running through our body politic.” If so, it’s strange that I’m not sure I’ve ever met a genuine white supremacist. Read More ›
Francis Galton
Image: Francis Galton, National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin, Galton, and “Replacement Theory”

Darwinism and eugenics, going back to the 19th century, were haunted by ideas of “replacement.” Read More ›

Meyer, Metaxas at Socrates in the City: Darwin’s Doubt and the Positive Case for ID

Hear the second segment of an engaging discussion between acclaimed author Eric Metaxas and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer at Socrates in the City. Read More ›

Metaxas, Meyer at Socrates in the City: What Is Intelligent Design?

Hear the first segment of an engaging discussion between acclaimed author Eric Metaxas and Darwin’s Doubt author Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
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Viewing the Eclipse from Salem, Oregon

The rabbi's wife took the best photo of the morning that I saw, with an iPhone, using two pairs of eclipse glasses as her filter. Read More ›

Now for a Film about Yoko Ono, Would-Be Censor

There are several good news stories on the recent development in the federal court case in which Yoko Ono seeks to prevent further distribution of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, the Ben Stein film. And then there is this one from ars technica: Notice the way the writer feels obliged to abuse free speech–by misrepresenting intelligent design–even as he defends it.Read more here at Discovery Blog.

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