Tag: Michael Ruse
Dembski and Ruse Look Back on 20 Years of Debate — And a Special Anniversary
The protest about the “spectre of intelligent design” was telling. When critics start talking that way, you can’t help wondering if ID is onto something.
In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility
Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm.
Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace
Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes.
Moran: Sternberg and Behe “Appear to Know More About Evolution than Their Opponents”
The whole point of selection was to bias or direct the deliverances of chance variation, so that “luck” didn’t have to do all the work.
In Debate on Intelligent Design, Critic Cites Dragon Legend to Justify Evolution’s Failures
It is, as Professor Behe acknowledges, a charming tale, but not very relevant as far as the details of the scientific debate go.