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Other arguments in this new brand of anti-Darwinism focus on missing pieces in the fossil record, particularly the Cambrian period, when there was an explosion of novel species. Still other advocates, including mathematician, philosopher and theologian William Dembski, who is heading up a new center for intelligent design at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution Wars | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

It is tempting to view that headlong progress as integral to the human condition, but it was not always so. For the most part, cultural development has moved more slowly than glaciers, imperceptible to those who participated in it. As the historical philosopher Ronald Wright observed, for 99.5% of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New waves, Ancient Shores | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

"I have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan but I could not do anything at all to prevent that fateful decision." ALBERT EINSTEIN, in a recently discovered 1953 letter to Japanese philosopher Seiei Shinohara, responding to Shinohara's criticism of the renowned physicist's role in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

“An old Swiss philosopher once said that when you open a school, you close a prison,” University of Baghdad Dean of Science Abdul Mahdi Taleb Rahmatalla said.

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scholars Say Iraqi Ed on Rebound | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

TIME's comment that Maimonides was a "philosopher who symbolizes a confluence of four cultures: Greco-Roman, Arab, Jewish and Western" ignores Maimonides' own description of himself. In a letter to Rabbi Jonathan HaKohein of Luniel (Provence), Maimonides says, "Torah consecrated me to her before my birth . . . She is my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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