Stephen Dilley

_{Senior Fellow and Academic Mentoring Centers Coordinator}

Stephen Dilley (PhD, philosophy) is the Academic Mentoring Centers Coordinator and a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. Prior to joining Discovery, Dr. Dilley was a professor for 14 years at St. Edward’s University (Austin, TX). He is the editor of Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism (Lexington Books) and co-editor of Human Dignity in Bioethics (Routledge). He has published essays in the The British Journal for the History of Science, The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and elsewhere.

Archives

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

_{Paul Nelson
March 31, 2023}

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia.

Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

_{Evolution News
March 31, 2023}

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?

Fossil Friday: The Triassic Explosion of Marine Reptiles

_{Günter Bechly
March 31, 2023}

It is not like we Darwin critics make this stuff up. We just look at all the evidence and draw our conclusions.

Will Evolutionists Ever Take Falsification Seriously? A Response to P. Z. Myers

_{David Swift
March 30, 2023}

Can there be a better example of trying to argue that whatever the evidence, evolution is the answer?

Avi Loeb Bumps Up Against Methodological Naturalism

_{Paul Nelson
March 30, 2023}

Jonah Goldberg talked with Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb about “Oumuamua, Alien Life & Fighting the Mainstream Science Community.”

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2023}

If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers.

Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory

_{Herman B. Bouma
March 29, 2023}

In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.”

Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause Is “Historical Fiction”

_{Evolution News
March 29, 2023}

The effect of the book is to misrepresent Darwin in such a way as to make those who reject Darwinism appear to be opposing a saintly anti-abolitionist.

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 29, 2023}

A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course.

Engineering Brings Life and Vice Versa

_{David Coppedge
March 29, 2023}

An uplifting video about a life-saving invention encapsulates several running themes about intelligent design, with only one brief flaw.