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Image: The climax of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the "Twilight of the Gods," by Max Brückner (1836-1919), printed by Otto Henning, restoration by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Meyer: “Twilight of the Godless Universe”

What is that “different direction” that Steve Meyer refers to? It looks less like a twilight and more like a dawn. Read More ›
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young Darwin statue
Statue of a young Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury School, by Ailurus~frwiki / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Recognizing the “Transformative” Impact of Barzun’s Darwin, Marx, Wagner, Eighty Years Later

Literary critic M. D. Aeschliman sketches the intellectual evolution that connects Barzun with later Darwin critics. The latest is Stephen Meyer. Read More ›
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Photo credit: fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com.

Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire

Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire. Read More ›
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Of Whales and Timescales

The changes involved in adapting a generic mammalian template into a whale are certainly not all simple, independent, single-letter changes. Read More ›

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