Author: David Klinghoffer
What We Argue About When We Argue About Evolution
Among hot-button controversies of the day, Darwinian evolution may be unique in being a question on which people express forceful opinions all the time, at high levels of the media and politics, all under a protocol where it’s the norm to have not even a basic idea what you’re talking about.
Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die
You get the sense that some hidden, perhaps unknowable logic, not reducible to material terms, plays a crucial role.
Awe and Adaptation
Materialist attempts to debunk religion have shifted in their nature and focus over the past couple of centuries.
Water on Mars: Materialism’s Shroud of Turin
As the Shroud holds out the tantalizing possibility of verification to some Christian believers, Darwinists and other materialists find in alien microbes a confirmation of their faith.
No Fear Have Ye of Evolutionary Morality?
The implications of evolutionary theory for ideas of moral conduct make Darwinians increasingly nervous, and for good reason.