Month: February 2012
Pay Darwin the Best Tribute: Resources for Turning Darwin Day into Academic Freedom Day
“A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” — Charles Darwin
Can Humans Improve on Nature? If So, What Does it Mean for Intelligent Design?
“In the Charyk Lab of Bioinspired Design, even an embryonic zebrafish heart can be an engineering muse.”
Born on the Same Day, What if Lincoln and Darwin Met?
For the body politic, policies that take natural selection seriously will increasingly restrain human life and freedom in the face of competing animal and ecological interests.
“A Bit Unprepossessing”: Plantinga on the Logic of Dawkins’s Blind Watchmaker
As we head into Evolution Sunday, I offer this second installment in a series of reviews of Alvin Plantinga’s long-awaited new book.
Measuring the Pervasiveness of the “Myth of No Peer-Reviewed Research”
Why let a little thing like the truth get in the way of such a beguiling lie?