Tag: Alfred Russel Wallace
Who Was John Elof Boodin and Why Does He Matter?
Boodin’s view that science and metaphysics could mutually inform one another was full of promise.
Who Was Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Why Does He Matter?
Bertalanffy’s systems-based approach continued under George Klir, and is carried on today by Dr. Richard Sternberg, who studied under Klir.
Alfred Russel Wallace — New Biography Is a Defeater for Arguments for Theistic Evolution
Wallace broke with Darwin and became, arguably, the founding father of modern intelligent design theory.
Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma
Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.”
Rafting Stormy Waters: When Biogeography Contradicts Common Ancestry
The orderly pattern of biogeographic distribution of plants and animals was one of the lines of evidence that Charles Darwin mentioned in support of his theory.