Author: Michael Flannery
Writing in First Things, Stephen Meredith Offers Confusion in the Guise of Critique
Meredith, a pathologist who teaches literature courses at the University of Chicago, largely dispenses with the science, instead subjecting ID to a critique as theology.
Alfred Russel Wallace and His Detractors
In a symposium in Current Biology, Andrew Berry’s short piece reveals how far we’ve failed to come in understanding Wallace.
An Anthropologist Looks at Wallace and Darwin
Kathleen Bolling Lowrey examines the intellectual supports of modern evolutionary biology and singles out the weakest among them.
Book Recommendation: Ashley Montagu Edition of Darwin’s Descent of Man
Removing the extraneous material also has the advantage of highlighting the most glaringly muddle-headed portions of Darwin’s thinking.
Postcard from Borneo: For Wallace, Something Numinous in Nature
The stunning beauty of plants and animals arrayed together were, Alfred Wallace believed, "calculated at once to please and to refine mankind."