Evolution News By John G. West
For generations, “Darwin’s Arch” in the Galápagos Islands stood as an unmovable monument to the life and work of Charles Darwin. A few weeks ago, on May 17, the arch collapsed.
While the loss of this landmark is sad, it’s also fitting — for Darwinism as a scientific and social theory is collapsing as well.
Just Look Around
In March, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Brian Josephson declared that “intelligent design is valid science.”
In April, researchers writing in the journal Current Biology asked whether Darwin’s “tree of life” should “be abandoned.”
In May, it was reported that Sheffield University has stopped hiding Darwin’s deadly social views from students. A university handbook now accurately notes that Darwin “believed… his theory of natural selection justified the view that the white race was superior to others, and used his theory of sexual selection to justify why women were clearly inferior to men.”
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This year our summer seminar program is training nearly 70 college students, professors, and professionals from all around the world. We received so many applicants from Africa that we are planning to hold an additional seminar program this fall just for African students and professors.
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