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Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point.

By Eric Steinhart Painting by Elmer Wachtel, Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum We humans often love other humans.  We love our family members and

By Eric Steinhart The Gazebo People have been making simulated worlds for a long time.  With the advent of the computer in the 1970s, we started making

Readers can determine for themselves who’s blowing smoke and who’s got the beef.

As a fellow mathematician, I would have liked to see from Rosenhouse a vigorous and insightful discussion of my ideas.

The year 2021 witnessed the publication of three similarly but not identically themed books which all oppose the current evolutionary paradigm.

How else should a frog watch what it eats?

Life on Earth Is Ruled by Chance 15/12/2020 Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 Prince Hamlet spent a lot of time pondering the nature of chance and probability in William Shakespeare’s tragedy. In the famous “To be or not to be” speech, he notes that we helplessly face “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” — though a little earlier in the play he declares that “there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,” suggesting that everyt...