Today I’m delivering a talk on intelligent design. One of the most commonly overlooked dimensions of apparent design in the natural world, and surely one of the most intriguing, is the presence of symmetry. Consider the wings of a butterfly. Note how each wing is a mirror of the other. Why is that? Why not a […]
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Intelligent Design according to Charlotte’s Web
The recent cinematic retelling of E.B. White’s classic Charlotte’s Web has a nice scene for anybody interested in pondering the intelligent design debates. For those who need a brief refresher, Fern is the owner of Wilbur the pig. Charlotte the spider has befriended Wilbur and is trying to save him from becoming a Christmas ham by […]
