Month: January 2012
Online Premiere of Darwin’s Heretic: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Learn about Alfred Russel Wallace’s fascinating journey of discovery starting Saturday, January 21, with the online premiere of the new documentary short Darwin’s Heretic at www.darwinsheretic.com.
“Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?”: James Shapiro Replies
What is wrong with “dancing in the DMZ” between intelligent design and neo-Darwinism? Are these two positions the only alternatives?
Austin Hughes: Most Evolutionary Literature Showing Positive Selection in the Genome is “Worthless”
In Hughes’s view, the evolutionary literature has “clogged up science” with purported examples of evidence of positive natural selection.
What Would the World Look Like if the New Atheists Won the Day?
On Christmas I had to run into the office briefly and discovered two new atheist books I’d ordered had arrived: Sean Faircloth’s Attack of the Theocrats and Penn Jillette’s God, No!.
No, Copernicus Did Not Remove Us from the Hub of the Universe
The significance of the earth and humanity, or our insignificance, does not hinge on age or “central” location.