A panel of lectures moderated by Edward Davis.
In the summer of 1850, the Englishman Alfred Tennyson galloped past the opposition and was appointed Poet Laureate. He was not an obvious choice, but his triumph was made nigh inevitable by the smashing success of his new poem: In Memoriam. Written as a tribute to a college friend, Arthur Hallam, who had died some…
“The Big Tent and the Camel’s Nose.” William Dembski has responded to my January 18 Tom Jukes Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley. Others are responding on META and elsewhere to the focus of his essay, whether natural selection is testable, and I shall not do so here. I should, however comment on views attributed to…
1. Overview of the Design Inference Darwinbegan his Origin of Species with the commonsense recognition that artificial selection in animal and plant breeding experiments is capable of directing organismal variation. A design-theoretic research program likewise begins with a commonsense recognition, in this case that humans draw design inferences routinely in ordinary life, explaining some things…
Bernard d’Abrera’s concise atlas of the world’s butterflies is a beautifully produced book with the most stunning photographs of butterflies that I’ve ever seen. Though not intended as a coffee-table book, it could eminently serve that purpose. D’Abrera himself is a world-renowned butterfly and moth expert at the BritishMuseum(Natural History) in London. Over the years…
Metanexus Bios. 1,862 Words. ﾓDarwin is under attack in America yet again. Exactly eighty years since the Scopes ﾓmonkey trial,ﾔ the teaching of Darwinﾒs theory of evolution is facing legal challenges in many parts of the country. A major trial pitting creationism against Darwin is under way in Dover, Pennsylvania, while the fate of another…
An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” animated and narrated.