14Jul 2025 by Post

How Did the Designer Do It? 

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Source
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15Jul 2024 by Post

When Darwinism Becomes a Fashionable Doomsday Cult

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Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious. Source
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05Sep 2023 by Post

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

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What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Source
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06Jul 2021 by Post

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

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The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Source
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27Apr 2021 by Post

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Source
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