Tag: history
Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage
Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination.
Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy
Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country.
Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Intelligent Design
Given Lincoln’s acknowledgment of the evidence of design in nature, he would be banned from expressing his views on evolution in most public schools today.
Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy
Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model.
Another Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist for Intelligent Design
Compton joins fellow Nobel Prize-winning physicists Charles Townes (UC Berkeley) and Brian Josephson (Cambridge University) who have likewise come out for ID.