Author: Michael Flannery
Women, Wallace, Evolution, and Eugenics
Eugenics has haunted the history of the feminist movement.
Women and the Great Darwinian Divide
Kimberly Hamlin’s book, From Eve to Evolution, is history as partisan polemic.
Review: In Search of the Roots of Modern Medicine
"Darwin’s theory did not make a significant contribution to clinical medicine." What did, then?
Let’s Celebrate "Alfred Russel Wallace Day" on April 14!
Today is the anniversary of Wallace’s public break with Darwin over the issue of teleology in nature.
Alister McGrath’s New C.S. Lewis Biography, and Narnia as a Critique of Darwinism
“Lewis’s narrative mounts a deceptively subtle critique of certain Darwinian ways of understanding the place of humanity within the natural order.”
Critiquing Intelligent Design in First Things, Stephen Meredith Seeks to Serve Two Masters
A theory like Darwin’s that purports to explain all of nature and of life itself cannot be separated from the metaphysical commitments of its founder.
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.