Tag: Darwin’s Heretic (Alfred Wallace)
Alfred Russel Wallace — Intelligent Design’s Lost Ancestor, Now Found
Michael Flannery casts Wallace as a “prophet,” in the Greek sense, one who interprets the text of nature.
Common Ancestry and Human Uniqueness
Accepting common ancestry for humans and apes doesn’t mean one has to embrace the claims of those who debunk human uniqueness.
Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference
When Oswald Spengler read Darwin’s Origin, he thought the conflation of biology and economics reeked of the English factory.
You Can’t Ascribe Intelligence to an Unguided Process
There’s a new movement afoot among some evolutionary biologists to co-opt the term “intelligent design.”
Animal Breeding as Evolution “In Action”?
“Our quickly fattening pigs, short-legged sheep, pouter pigeons, and poodle dogs could never have come into existence in a state of nature.”