Evolution Diary

By RICHARD DAWKINS
I had expected to be as irritated by Michael Behe’s second book as by his first. I had not expected to feel sorry for him. (…)

In 1950, in a letter to bishops, Pope Pius XII took up the issue of evolution. (…)

David Cameron found himself in very hot water this week with leading scientists following comments he made on Friday hinting that schools could be given more flexibility to teach creationism in science lessons. (…)

Not good news at all for biology and science in general…
THE “Atlas of Creation” runs to 770 pages and is lavishly illustrated with photographs of fossils and living animals, interlaced with quotations from the Koran. (…)

It is curious that Charles Darwin, perhaps medicine’s most famous dropout, provided the impetus for a subject that figures so rarely in medical education. (…)