Author: Michael Flannery
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."
Postcard from Borneo: The People
Alfred Wallace would come to see in human beings something special, unique in the natural world, far and away qualitatively different from anything else in the animal kingdom.
Postcard from Borneo: Wallace and the Orangutan
“Naturalists are too apt to imagine, when they cannot discover, a use for everything in nature.”
Postcard from Borneo: A Walk on the Beach in Sabah
I’m now in the Malaysian state of Sabah some miles from the capital Kota Kinabalu, established as Jesselton long after Alfred Russel Wallace had left the region.
Postcard from Borneo: The Wallace Centennial Conference, Day 2
This was a great place to meet people from all over the world, brightened by the hospitality of the Malaysian people in a city that is easy to love.
Postcard from Borneo: The Alfred Russel Wallace Centennial
In many ways Wallace’s contributions began here on Borneo, the third largest island in the world.
Richard Weikart Makes the Definitive Case for the Nazi/Darwinism Connection
Weikart’s most recent publication makes the position of the history deniers untenable.
Darwin and the Genetic "Fallacy"
The genetic fallacy is the assessment of an argument or theory based upon its origin, history, or source rather than the argument or theory itself.
Darwin’s Other Doubt
The epistemological nihilism inherent in Darwin’s theory ultimately becomes the refutation of every Darwinist.
Did I Too Conveniently Omit Mention of Alfred Russel’s Wallace Interest in Spiritualism?
Wallace’s argument for guidance and purpose in the universe is made quite apart from his spiritualistic beliefs.