Darwinism is “sustained mostly by sociology.” Meaning, career pressures, groupthink, and the like. So says biochemist Michael Behe, author of the new book A Mousetrap for Darwin: Michael J. Behe Answers His Critics, in a webinar conversation with Discovery Institute’s John West. The webinar was held over the past weekend and you can watch it again now.

Are Darwin’s finches “a particularly compelling example of speciation” as well as “evolution in action”? There are obviously important open questions yet to be solved, including the possible effects of hybridization between Geospiza magnirostris and G. fortis.

A primary means of regulating public opinion by any autocratic institution is controlling mass communications (e.g., newspapers and television) and other official sources of information such as educational curricula, religious instruction, and academic journals. Yet, hope still remains, for truth has the power to prevail if it can gain a hearing.

Historically, Darwin and his cohorts were just as racist and gender biased as Cope or anyone else of their era. As I have pointed out, Darwin was certainly as racist as the notorious species fixist Louis Agassiz. And Darwin’s Bulldog, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), was no better.

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