As a biology graduate student, I had seen first-hand some of the alleged evidence for the “fact” of common descent.

Penguins have no external genitalia. Even as adults, the males and females can be difficult to tell apart.

Some reviews that try to make a book look bad are so ill-informed and malicious that they actually make a good book look better.

French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”

Rick Sternberg and I agreed that this was one of the best conferences we had ever attended.

If you want your sons and daughters to be well educated about evolution, then hope their biology teachers don’t rely on materials from the Genetic Science Learning Center.

Is it true, as one critics says, that “cancer regularly innovates with proteins of novel function”?

Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.”

As Tom Bethell points out, there is a lot more to living things than their DNA.

For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution.

In 1929, child psychologist Jean Piaget called children “artificialists” who tend to regard everything as “the product of human creation.”

René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”