David Michael Ruse, 54, of Superior, WI passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, after nearly a year of battling Mantle Cell Lymphoma Cancer. David was born in San ...

Stegosaurus is a dinosaur renowned for the plates that run up and down its back. When we look at its fossilized remains today, it is hard to suppress the question of what the plates were for. What ...

1. Origins and the Greeks / Jeremy Kirby -- 2. Evolution before Darwin / Michael Ruse -- 3. Charles Darwin's geology : the root of his philosophy of the earth / David Norman -- 4. Looking back with ...

The origin of the Origin / Michael Ruse -- Darwin's analogy between artificial and natural selection in the origin of species / Mark A. Largent -- Variation and inheritance / Robert Olby -- Darwin's ...

From the title, this appears to be an invitation to integrate knowledge with faith. Ruse, a professor at Florida State Univ. is a skeptic who believes that the ""central core claims of Christianity by ...

Michael Ruse (Tallahassee, Fla.) is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and director of the History and Philosophy of Science program at Florida State University. He is the founding ...

It’s an age-old question. Does life have a purpose? Or, writ large: Does the universe reveal a grand design? Most scientists today would say “not really,” but, depending on their field of specialty, ...

The history of evolutionary thought / Michael Ruse -- The origin of life / Jeffrey L. Bada and Antonio Lazcano -- Paleontology and the history of life / Michael Benton -- Adaptation / Joseph Travis ...

Ruse, a well-known evolutionary historian and philosopher, defends Darwin from all comers, whether religious critics; those who, like Gertrude Himmelfarb, have accused Darwin of being a second-rate ...