Tag: The New York Review of Books
To Weed the Garden, or Not to Weed the Garden, That Is the Question
An award-winning environmental journalist tackles the question of plant consciousness and plant rights.
Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan.
Darwin’s Silver Chair
C. S. Lewis was an agnostic before he became a Christian, so he understood the spell of unbelief.
Remembering Freeman Dyson and the Enduring Lesson of “Dyson’s Hypothesis”
Dyson points out that the highly improbable is actually quite probable by invoking “Littlewood’s law of miracles.”
Majestic Ascent: Phillip Johnson’s Darwin on Trial
There is some evidence that once again, the diapason of opinion is being changed. The claims of intelligent design are too insistent and too plausible to be frivolously dismissed.