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Although the museum‘s exhibit largely avoids these volatile issues and instead concentrates on Darwin‘s life and ideas, Mr. Eldredge‘s companion volume is another matter altogether.
The New York Sun | How evolution evolved
This was an astute remark. Many of Darwin‘s readers, then and now, have tried to find ways to reconcile a divine creator with the clearly secular implications of Darwin‘s theory of evolution.
we have the luxury of seeing at a glance what Darwin saw:
The basic objections to evolution - the ones trumpeted by the proponents of so-called intelligent design - are essentially the ones Darwin described in the sixth chapter of "Origin."
They have been given a new language, and new examples have been adduced.
To the extent that the furor over evolution represents a cultural crisis in America - and only in America - it is a crisis of credulity, not faith, a crisis rooted in neglect and ignorance.
The International Herald Tribune | The Grandeur of Evolution
Which brings us to Dover, Pa., Pat Robertson, the Kansas State Board of Education, and a fight over evolution that is so anachronistic and retrograde as to be a national embarrassment.
How does one empirically disprove the proposition that God was behind the lemur, or evolution -- or behind the motion of the tides or the "strong force" that holds the atom together?
The school board thinks it is indicting evolution by branding it an "unguided process" with no "discernible direction or goal."
Washington Post | Phony Theory, False Conflict
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