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The Origin of Specious Ideas: Did Darwin Explain Speciation?

April 29, 2005

Even though Darwin’s best seller was titled On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, Albert and Schluter in Current Biology1 claim his title was deceptive: “Darwin’s book is about adaptation and the origin of varieties and has surprisingly little to say about selection and ‘the origin of species – that mystery of mysteries’.” Is […]

Darwin and Evolution

Will Darwinian Law Protect the Unfit?

March 15, 2005

Eggheads at Vanderbilt import evolutionary ideas into legal policies that could negatively affect individual rights in devastating ways.

Darwin and Evolution

Introducing the Stretch & Squish Theory of Evolution

December 14, 2004

How do you squish an arm into a wing, or stretch a fin into a leg? This sounds like the silly putty theory of evolution.

Politics and Ethics

Eugenics Documentary Opens at Holocaust Museum

April 22, 2004

Michael Ollove at the Baltimore Sun reports on a new exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum entitled Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. The exhibit shows a 1937 Nazi propaganda film that invokes the law of natural selection as support for weeding out the unfit. Ollove writes, The narrator declares that “we humans have sinned […]

Darwin and Evolution

E-I-E-I-O in Old McDarwin’s Animal Farm

February 3, 2004

Some beliefs about origins are more equal than others.

Bible and Theology

Origin 150th: Time to Mock the Creationists

November 20, 2002

51; With the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin just around the corner (Nov. 24th), Evangelist Ray Comfort and actor Kirk Cameron and volunteers are invading some 50 universities today to hand out free copies of Darwin’s magnum opus. These, however, are spiked with a critical introduction that criticizes evolutionary theory and presents the Christian gospel. […]

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