Month: May 2024
Richard Dawkins’s Unlikely Nemesis
Leading the charge against the model is — of all people — one of Dawkins’s own doctoral examiners at Oxford, the renowned physiologist Denis Noble.
Debating Darwinism at the Center of the Universe: Reading from a New Young Adult Novel
On a weekend visit to his grandparents’ farm, Isaac is caught between two very different worldviews. He must choose for himself which makes the most sense.
Trillions of Cicadas Sing of Intelligent Design
Eastern U.S. states will see a natural phenomenon that hasn’t occurred for many years: the coordinated emergence of two broods of noisy cicadas.
Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps
A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist.
Interstellar Travel: Fantasy or Destiny?
Borrowing from science fiction, one of the more intriguing possibilities for interstellar travel involves nullifying the inertia of the entire spaceship.