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Darwin’s Role in The Closing of the American Mind
Something to remember next time you hear Darwinists trying to raise alarms about the dread effects on education if young people are allowed to question evolutionary orthodoxy.
So Where Does the Conflict (with Alvin Plantinga) Really Lie?
I belabor the semantic point concerning “Darwinism” because the Darwinian enterprise includes a methodological exclusion of design and notoriously equivocates on words such as “evolution,” “random,” and even “design.”
Glenn Reynolds: For More Skepticism on Science, Not Less
“The very core of the scientific method is supposed to be skepticism.”
What’s in a Word? “Randomness” in Darwinism and the Scientific Theory of Evolution
This is the third in a series of reviews of Alvin Plantinga’s important new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies.
“Random” Samples of Media and Textbook Descriptions of Darwinian Evolution
In his Autobiography, Charles Darwin stated, “There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course the wind blows.” It is thus quite odd that a ScienceDaily.com article earlier this year with the headline “New Findings Confirm Darwin’s Theory” should go on to say “Evolution Not Random.” This study may be confirming some theory, but it isn’t Darwin’s theory. This tactic to push evolution to the public as “non-random” appears to be part of an ongoing campaign on the part of Darwinists to make neo-Darwinism appear more appealing to the public (which tends to be religious). While there are non-random components to natural selection, evolutionary biology Read More ›