Author: Evolution News
How James Clerk Maxwell Rescued the Humanities in Verse
Few may realize that James Clerk Maxwell, the 19th-century physicist on par with Newton and Einstein who gave us electromagnetic theory, was a poet. One of his best takes materialists to task in playful yet incisive wit.
An Inordinate Fondness for Confounding Darwinians
Write FAIL by another Darwinian prediction: there’s no relationship between the length of a branch on Darwin’s “tree of life” and how many leaves it has.
New Website Explores C.S. Lewis’s Thoughts on Science & Scientism
“By the 1940s and 50s, Lewis became more vocal about the looming dangers of what he called ‘scientocracy,’ the effort to hand over the reigns of cultural and political power to an elite group of experts claiming to speak in the name of science.”
A Philosopher Chastises Reductionist Myopia
“Through their thorough arguments, the essays in Processes of Life challenge widely held assumptions about biology and evolution. Dupr� provides a view of life grounded in recent research and current understanding. His perspective also reminds us how much we do not know.”
Astrobiology: Science or Boondoggle?
“In certain circles, astrobiology has become a resounding but meaningless catchword in the competition for grant money.” — Nature, August 9.