Category: Darwin’s 200th

Charles Darwin had a big idea, arguably the most powerful idea ever. A powerful idea assumes little to explain much. It does a lot of explanatory “heavy lifting” while expending little in the way of assumption or postulation. It gives you plenty of bang for your explanatory buck. Its Explanation Ratio—what it explains divided by …

In the beginning . . . there was straight-up creationism. Six twenty-four-hour days of special creation by God of everything as we see it today& mdash;galaxies, solar systems, the Earth, plants and animals on Earth, and of course, human beings, created in God’s image. Advocates of creationism lobbied to ban evolution from the classroom and …

  “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new’? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.” —Ecclesiastes 1:9—10, New International Version Resistance to the …

Two centuries ago, two men, one an American and one an Englishman, turned their world—and ours—upside down. They were Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Astonishingly, both men were born on the exact same day, February 12, 1809. While this might seem the kind of coincidence that fills astrologers with glee, further reflection points to many …

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing effort to portray Darwin as a racist and to claim that Nazi racial ideology was based on evolutionary theory. The roots of this effort can be traced back to a book written by Daniel Gasman in 1971 called The Scientific Origins of National Socialism, but it …

If ever you find yourself in a debate with an evolutionist, be aware that your opponent might attempt to seduce you with “facts” and “science.” He will point toward a variety of “evidence,” and state that the community of “real” scientists around the globe overwhelmingly believes that the theory of evolution is a fact. You …

What does it mean to live without God today? Surely that has to do with responsibility: taking it and ascribing it. Yet here we are wrestling with the Sphinx’s riddle for the twenty-first century: What kind of being is it that is profoundly free and yet whose decisions and actions are profoundly affected by forces …