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Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism 

Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›
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Evolution Evolved to Mirror the Zeitgeist

By the mid 1800s, the mental climate had shifted, and the time was ripe for a new Darwin to craft a new Darwinism. Read More ›
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Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›
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Is This a Paradigm Shift? 

Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
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On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation

The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset, Read More ›
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The Junk Shop of Andreas Wagner

The fundamental dilemma is this: whenever you co-opt any part from an old system and put it in a new system, there are two possibilities. Read More ›
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A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism

Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either. Read More ›
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Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident

The unique fitness of nature for carbon-based life and intelligent beings of our biology is an empirical discovery. Read More ›
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A Journalist at Stephen Meyer’s Dallas Speech Recalls His Own Remarkable Response

“At some point during this talk, I felt a gear turn in my head.” Read More ›
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Darwin in the Dock: C.S. Lewis’s Critique of "Evolutionism"

By highlighting the all-too-human frailties of modern science, Lewis made his most important contribution to the evolution debate. Read More ›

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