Category: Evolution
Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative
People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion.
For Darwin, Timing Was Everything
Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?
“Primitive”? Lowly Cyanobacteria Boast Superpowers
Prochlorococcus, which lives in the ocean, may be the most abundant species of life on earth. It produces about 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe.
Watch: Kid Explains Intelligent Design to His Dad
The lucidity of the younger individual’s grasp of ID is quite something. Tor could probably help out in tutoring some adult ID critics I can think of.
The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection
The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.