Author: Tom Bethell
Natural Limits to Variation, or Reversion to the Mean: Is Evolution Just Extrapolation by Another Name?
“In spite of intensive and long continued efforts, breeders have failed to give the world blue roses and black tulips.”
Stephen Meyer at the University Club: Why Are We Still Debating Darwin?
In a “sneak preview,” Meyer said his next book would be about the Cambrian explosion — the geologically sudden appearance of most of the major animal forms and body designs.
“Life All the Way Down”: Stephen Talbott’s Biological Vision
Organisms are wholes and cannot be thought of as assembled in machine-like fashion.
What I Saw at the Counter-Reformation: A Personal Reminiscence of Phil Johnson
Darwin’s great promoter Thomas Henry Huxley, anticipating the dawn of evolutionism in the 1850s, knew that he was living through a New Reformation. Today we are witnessing a new Counter-Reformation.
Eric Hoffer’s Skepticism About Darwinism
ENV is pleased to welcome guest blogger Tom Bethell, a senior editor of The American Spectator and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science (Regnery) and other books. Many years ago I interviewed Eric Hoffer (1898-1983), and may have been the last journalist to do so. Widely known as the Longshoreman Philosopher, he was for years a member of the dockers’ union in San Francisco, but his views were not those of your typical stevedore. He had published The True Believer in 1951, and more books after that. Impressed by the breadth of his mind and the unconventional nature of his opinions, I wrote and asked if I could come and interview him. That was in 1980. He invited Read More ›