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Photo credit: Ben Sale, via Flickr (cropped).

Strickberger’s Evolution Textbook Promotes False Evolutionary Icons

From crippled fruit flies we move to perhaps the most pervasive icon of them all, the peppered moth. Read More ›
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Whale Song: Learning from Our Critics

A substantive argument is a lovely thing to behold, to watch or to listen to, even if punctuated (in Myers's case) by the usual grumpy insults. Read More ›
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Portrait of Galileo Galilei and his telescope
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Zombie History — Using Galileo to Whack Intelligent Design

As a top science journal tells the story, the Galileo myth is relevant only to attack those who challenge the establishment consensus. Read More ›
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Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Pseudogenes Are Going the Way of Darwin’s “Rudimentary Organs”

Long described as useless leftovers of evolution, pseudogenes are rising from the junk pile as functional entities. Read More ›
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Image: Louis Pasteur, by Albert Edelfelt (1885)/ Public domain.

Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›
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Photo at top: Breast cancer cell, via National Cancer Institute; “I Think” drawing, by Charles Darwin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, a leader in this movement for “Darwinian medicine,” would require “questions about evolution in medical licensing examinations.” Read More ›
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Photo credit: A spark from two electrodes simulated lightning, shown above, by Griffinstorm / CC BY-SA.

Textbooks Still Misrepresent the Origin of Life 

After 2000, some textbooks were corrected, but in many cases the corrections were minor and the books continued to perpetuate the misrepresentations. Read More ›
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On Evolution, Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Lutheran theologian Ted Peters concludes that “a culture war is raging, to be sure. But, this is not a war between science and faith.” Read More ›

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