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...example, the conservative-intellectual magazine “Commentary” has been the scene of an unseemly “intelligent design” melee over the past few months. It started when writer David Berlinski wrote an article in the December issue titled “Has Darwin met his match?” In it, Berlinksi derides both “intelligent design” and contemporary evolutionary biology as problematic. The March issue contains a massive selection of letters both from opponents of intelligent design and its most flamboyant supporters. The irony is that Berlinski...
...founded in 1859—the same year that Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species—by Harvard professor Louis Agassiz, who stridently rejected Darwin’s theory of evolution...
...biology class and where Wheaton College runs The Billy Graham Center (slogan: “Stimulating Global Evangelism”). Now, Lombard, my town, was never quite so bad. In high school we learned about evolution and no one was chastised for uttering the name Charles Darwin. Of course, Mrs. Beardsley also let my friend Judi Fay (daughter of Salvation Army ministers) do an extra credit project in our biology class freshman year in which she presented alternative theories to evolution—namely the good ole literal reading of Genesis in which there was a big boom...
...some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space program hasn't had a leading role since James Bond went into orbit in Moonraker. But in June a small, unmanned pod named Beagle 2 (after Charles Darwin's famous ship) has a chance to change all that. Masterminded by Professor Colin Pillinger, an eccentric and exuberant planetary scientist at Britain's remote learning Open University, the Beagle is on track to beat the mighty NASA program, which is set to send its next Mars probe at about...
...course, risks. Mars has been exceptionally hostile to visitors: fewer than 10 of the 31 missions to the planet have succeeded. But if any of these missions can break the jinx, they might unravel a bewitching mystery. And if the little pod called Beagle takes the prize, somewhere Charles Darwin will be smiling...