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What I Saw at the Counter-Reformation: A Personal Reminiscence of Phil Johnson

Darwin's great promoter Thomas Henry Huxley, anticipating the dawn of evolutionism in the 1850s, knew that he was living through a New Reformation. Today we are witnessing a new Counter-Reformation. Read More ›

A New Edition of Alfred Russel Wallace Book Features Rare Essay

Although Wallace was not a Christian, Rev. John Magens Mello's essay places Wallace's ideas within a specifically Christian context. Read More ›

The 20th Anniversary of Darwin on Trial

Darwin-as-philosophy inspired sociological jurisprudence and legal realism before mixing in the late 20th century with dissident politics and continental critical theory to form the intellectual foundation of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement. Read More ›

No Positive Selection, No Darwin: A New Non-Darwinian Mechanism for the Origin of Adaptive Phenotypes

Even oft-cited examples such as Darwin's finches and antibiotic resistance appear to typically involve no more than phenotypic plasticity and the selection of irreducibly complex traits already in existence. Read More ›

Phillip Johnson on Dogmatic Signs

This month’s edition of Touchstone Magazine has a great column by the godfather of intelligent design, Phillip Johnson, offering his review of Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell and his take on why the book has been met with such an uproar in the blogosphere: In another way, however, it is peculiar that there is such a furious and often ill-informed objection to a learned volume that isn’t even about the theory of biological evolution. The book advances well-reasoned arguments based on solid evidence about a prior problem — the origin of the cell’s information content — concerning which most scientists would concede that they know very little. The one thing that many of these scientists think they do know Read More ›

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