Wilson invites the serious public to do what far too few of us have done: to read what Darwin wrote.

...with an emphasis on serious -- this book is 1706 pages! On the up side, Amazon is taking orders for $26.

The formulation of intelligent design is a default argument advanced in support of a non sequitur. The designer is seldom specified, but in the canon of intelligent design it is most certainly not Satan and his angels.

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The inexorable growth of biology continues to widen, not to close, the tectonic gap between science and faith-based religion. Rapprochement may be neither possible nor desirable. There is something deep in religious belief that divides people and amplifies societal conflict.