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Teaching Evolution: Perhaps Unnecessary After All
By Varadaraja Raman on October 15, 1999Read moreIt is now known all across the country and all over the world: The Board of Education in the State of Kansasdecided, on the basis of a vote of 6 to 4, that the children in that state ought not to be taught the theory of evolution, nor Genesis according to Big Bang. The board did not insist that students
0The Geese are Flying South: Problems with Darwinian Gradualism
By Muzaffar Iqbal on October 14, 1999Read moreSeen from our earthly abode, they appear as white harmonic formations, gliding across the enormity of the deep blue sky toward their winter homes. Seeing them fly so freely in such a precise manner, one wonders: Are the geese going south because a little hormone in their bodies has triggered a series of actions which make them flap their wings
Explaining Specified Complexity
By William Dembski on September 13, 1999Read moreIn his recent book The Fifth Miracle, Paul Davies suggests that any laws capable of explaining the origin of life must be radically different from scientific laws known to date. The problem, as he sees it, with currently known scientific laws, like the laws of chemistry and physics, is that they are not up to explaining the key feature of
Philosophy and Sex: Not a Happy Couple
By Michael Ruse on September 1, 1999Read moreA one-volume history of Western civilization would surely have to have a chapter devoted to sex, marriage, and related activities and customs, and no less surely would make the claim that over this whole, most important aspect of human flourishing lies the clammy fog of the Christian religion. Although Judaism, from which Christianity came, has always made sex and the
Review of Ian McEwan’s “Enduring Love”
By Michael Ruse on August 1, 1999Read moreIn 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 twenty years before, Tennyson’s verses