Author: Robert F. Shedinger
The Uses of Illness in Darwin’s Correspondence
Darwinian biographer Janet Browne notes how Darwin’s illness may have become a convenient excuse for avoiding certain activities.
Intelligent Design May Speak to Young People’s Spiritual Interests
The rapidly changing religious demographics of American society constitutes an undoubtedly complex sociological issue that will resist easy explanation.
More Dispatches from the Science/Religion Classroom
Students are adept at spotting the incongruities, double standards, and tendentious arguments that often accompany methodological naturalism.
Why We Do This Work
I am reading a response journal from a student in my Science and Religion class and came across a comment that really captures why we do what we do.
Squeezing Out the Mystery: Final Comments on Strickberger’s Evolution
The phenomenon of convergent evolution suggests that natural selection fits better with the analogy of the engineer than it does the tinkerer.