When university studies of mythology began in the 19th century, scholars often saw myth as primitive science. ‘Why do seas surge and winds blow?’ Edward Burnett Tylor, Oxford University’s first ...

A weeks ago Robert Wright had a post up, Creationists vs. Evolutionists: An American Story. Here's the crux: A few decades ago, Darwinians and creationists had a de facto nonaggression pact: ...

Of all the fundamentalist groups at large in the world today, the Darwinians seem to me the most objectionable. They are just as strident and closed to argument as Christian or Muslim fundamentalists, ...

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