Author: David Klinghoffer
Evolutionary Psychology and Darwinism as an Id�e Fixe
Darwinism is a prime example of the kind of rigid thinking — the id�e fixe or fixed idea — that bedevils seemingly unrelated fields having to do with diet, therapy, advice, and self-help, with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes more unfortunate than that.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lepidopterist and Darwin-doubter, Has Expertise Vindicated
Novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov had “furious” Darwin-doubts. How delightful that his insight and expertise have now been impressively demonstrated, as the New York Times reports.
Protest David Coppedge’s Persecution, Direct to NASA!
Get ready now to call (preferably) or at least email Charles Bolden, NASA’s administrator, to express your outrage at the fact that Coppedge was fired this week. Here’s that contact information: phone: 202-358-1010; email: charles.bolden@nasa.gov.
Richard Dawkins, Worthless Bully
Richard Dawkins has now commented on the Martin Gaskell discrimination case where a distinguished astronomer was turned down for a job at the University of Kentucky (UK) because he expressed views sympathetic to intelligent design. Dawkins jauntily endorses such academic discrimination.
New Biography Reveals Evolution’s Co-Discoverer as Early Intelligent Design Advocate
In a sparkling, concise and controversial new biography of the co-discoverer of evolutionary theory, historian Michael A. Flannery tells a largely unknown story that has been embarrassing Darwinians in the know for almost a century and a half.