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Film on Darwin’s heretic Wallace now available

Wallace, Darwin’s co-discoverer, couldn’t teach at a university today Here. Wallace, co-discoverer of natural selection, saw hisdiscovery in the context of design. Of a socially humble background compared with Darwin, he was soon banished from the elite atheist circle, and consigned to the mockery of lesser men, then and since. Here’s the trailer for Darwin’s Heretic: Compare Wallace to the typical Darwinbot prof, as you watch. … Who would you rather study with?

Darwin lobby takes on climate change as well

JonathanM, one of our authors (recent subject of Darwin TV), also notes that Darwin lobbyist Eugenie Scott (National Centr for Science Education) was speaking recently at a Glasgow Skeptics meeting in Glasgow that he attended: The topic of the lecture (which you can watch for yourself) was “Evolution and Global Warming Denial: How the Public is Misled.” There was little scientific substance in the presentation, particularly on the subject of evolution. Instead, Dr. Scott attempted to draw parallels between the political strategies employed by Darwin skeptics (whom she seems to think are all creationists) and Climate Change skeptics (whom she pejoratively labeled “deniers”). She linked “evolution denial” and “global warming denial” to the American religious and political Right. But she Read More ›

“Paranoia” hits British Darwinists (well, these days, that’s pretty much what they’ve got, intellectually)

In “British Humanists campaign to restrict academic freedom”( Access Research Network, September 23, 2011), British physicist David Tyler explains, This week has seen the launch of a new website, with the title: “Teach evolution, not creationism!” registered by the British Humanist Association. The issue relates to education and the way the subject of origins is handled. The organisations in the campaign are the British Humanist Association, the Association for Science Education, the British Science Association, the Campaign for Science & Engineering and Ekklesia. There are 30 individual signatories and most publicity has been given to Sir David Attenborough. The Daily Telegraph’s report said that “The naturalist joined three Nobel laureates, the atheist Richard Dawkins and other leading scientists in calling Read More ›