Interesting items in the intelligent design controversy

I have been really busy due to book and family issues, but here are some items I never had a chance to write up:

1. Has Craig Venter produced artificial life?

Before you decide, consider this.

2. Was Ardi the missing link?

Apparently not. The big question was, why did anyone need to believe it so badly? We may never find the missing link. We certainly should not jump on just any purported example.

3. A friend writes to remind me of "Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress..., which I consider indispensable in understanding what happened in the 20th century, when ideas hatched in the 19th turned deadly. Darwinism had a lot to do with it, because it fomented the idea of treating people like animals.

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