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Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

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

If any modern ID proponent fits the Wallacean model it is biologist Michael Behe. Read More ›
Wallace notebooks
Wallace notebooks
Photo: Wallace's notebooks, at the Linnean Society, London, by John Cummings / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Alfred Russel Wallace’s Case for an “Overruling Intelligence”

When Wallace broke with Charles Darwin in 1869, it was over the nature of human beings. 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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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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