Author: Michael Flannery
Was Darwin a Scholar or a Pitchman?
You read a great deal about Darwin’s scientific method and meticulousness as a student of nature, but that’s not exactly scholarship.
The Death of Darwin
As a young man Charles Darwin loved music, had a fondness for art, and appreciated fine literature.
Oxford University Physicist Ard Louis on Evolution as Self-Constructing LEGO Train
Louis, obviously a bright young man, really does think this is sound reasoning.
At the Feet of Clio: History Versus Science?
"Consider that science is a portion of history but not the reverse."
What Darwin’s Darlings Need to Know about David Hume
As Alfred Russel Wallace observed, "Such a simple fact as the existence of flying fish [i.e., the Exocoetidae family] could never be proved, if Hume’s argument is a good one."
Theologically Speaking, What Intelligent Design Is and What It Isn’t
Prolific author Aidan Nichols is former John Paul II Memorial Lecturer in Roman Catholic Theology at Oxford and currently prior of the Dominican house in Cambridge.
Mission Impossible: Trying to Explain the Feather Without Teleology
“It may seem strange to consider the fact that you, as a mammal, have all the known genes required to pattern a feather, and yet you do not look like Big Bird.”
Has Ken Miller Refuted Irreducible Complexity with a Tie Clip?
At a recent meeting of the student apologetics group Ratio Christi an acquaintance posed a surprising question.
Coming to Grips with the Truth About Social Darwinism
While its roots in Darwinian theory are unmistakable, some like historian Robert J. Richards desperately seek to distance the two.
New Book "Rescues" Alfred Russel Wallace — by Refashioning Him in Darwin’s Image
Meanwhile the very issue that divided the two founders of modern evolutionary theory — the cognitive capacities of Homo sapiens — remains unresolved by Darwinian mechanisms.