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Teaching Evolution: Perhaps Unnecessary After All
It is now known all across the country and all over the world: The Board of Education in the...
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The Geese are Flying South: Problems with Darwinian Gradualism
Seen from our earthly abode, they appear as white harmonic formations, gliding across the enormity of the deep blue...
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Explaining Specified Complexity
In his recent book The Fifth Miracle, Paul Davies suggests that any laws capable of explaining the origin of...
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Philosophy and Sex: Not a Happy Couple
A one-volume history of Western civilization would surely have to have a chapter devoted to sex, marriage, and related...
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Review of Ian McEwan’s “Enduring Love”
In the summer of 1850, the Englishman Alfred Tennyson galloped past the opposition and was appointed Poet Laureate. He...
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Rolston’s Understanding of “Possibility Space” in Evolution
The main difficulty I have with Holmes Rolston’s essay on “Possibility Space” is in his statement: “We face questions...
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Social Darwinism and National Socialism
I have just come back from a quick trip to the old German city of Jena, close to Weimar. ...
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Review of Stephen Jay Gould’s “Rocks of Ages”
Stephen Jay Gould is justly honoured not only for his contributions to science but also for his sensitive and...
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Is Evolution a Secular Religion?
Does God have a sense of humour? It is in fact an interesting theological point. We usually think that...
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Review of E.O. Wilson’s “Consilience”
I begin this review with two snapshot reactions. First, there was the review of Consilience in Science: this appeared...