For Darwin Day, Robert Shedinger Calls Darwin’s Bluff

Charles Darwin, Darwin Day, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Darwin’s Bluff, demythologization, dogma, Evolution, history, history of science, Intelligent Design, Jeffrey Kripal, Luther College, On the Origin of Species, religion, rhetorical devices, Rice University, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, scientific naturalism, Steve Fuller, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, University of Warwick
Tucked away in Charles Darwin’s surviving papers is a lengthy manuscript he never finished. Source
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The Gollum Effect in Science, from Tycho Brahe to Today

academia, Andrew McDiarmid, astronomers, autopsy, banquet, Darwinian theory, Evolution, evolutionists, Gollum, history, history of science, Intelligent Design, Johannes Kepler, Michael Keas, Physics, Earth & Space, science, Times Higher Education, Tycho Brahe, Unbelievable?
Brahe, a 16th-century Danish astronomer, sat on his astronomical research for years, rather than sharing it with Johannes Kepler, his assistant. Source
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Event Report: Design and the Designer

biology, Biomimetics, COVID-19, Daniel Reeves, design triangulation, Emily Reeves, Eric Metaxas, faith, Faith & Science, history of science, human foot, intellectuals, Intelligent Design, International Space Station, John West, Michael Keas, Olympics, Philadelphia, Physics, Earth & Space, Return of the God Hypothesis, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, Systems Biology, theology, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith
There were 16 different talks, ranging from the history of science and faith to more technical topics like systems biology and design triangulation. Source
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The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

biology, Bob Richards, creationists, Evolution, Frank Lewis Marsh, Genetics and the Origin of Species, history of science, Macroevolution, Mark B. Adams, Microevolution, neo-Darwinian theory, Richard Delisle, Russia, Theodosius Dobzhansky, United States, University of Chicago, University of Lethbridge, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania, William C. Wimsatt, Yuri Filipchenko
The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Source
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