BR, Summer 1996

H. Allen Orr
Dennett's Strange Idea
Natural Selection: Science of Everything, Universal Acid, Cure for the Common Cold...

BR, October/November 1996

Daniel Dennett
The Scope of Natural Selection
The author replies to "Dennett's Strange Idea."

H. Allen Orr Replies

BR, December/January 1996-97

Robert C. Berwick
Feeling for the Organism
Are living things nothing more than the sum of their gradually-evolved parts?
    sidebar: Art Imitates Life? Simulating evolution to solve engineering problems

H. Allen Orr
Darwin v. Intelligent Design (Again)
The latest attack on evolution is cleverly argued, biologically informed -- and wrong.

BR, February/March 1997

Is Darwin in the Details?

Eleven responses to H. Allen Orr's review of Darwin's Black Box and Robert Berwick's review of Climbing Mount Improbable.

The Sterility of Darwinism, Michael Behe
Dogmatic Materialism, Phillip E. Johnson
The Limits of Darwinism, David Berlinski
More Crank Science, Jerry A. Coyne
A Delicate Balance, Russell F. Doolittle
Miracles and Molecules, Douglas J. Futuyma
Where's the Evidence?, Robert DiSilvestro
Enough Speculation, Michael Ruse
A Third Way, James A. Shapiro
Errors of Omission, Richard Dawkins
A Scientific Snow Job, Daniel Dennett
H. Allen Orr Responds
Robert C. Berwick Responds

BR, December/January 1997-98

H. Allen Orr
The Softer Side of Sociobiology: a review of Matt Ridley's The Origins of Virtue
Why do people cooperate? Why are we nice to each other? It's all in the genes, a new book claims.

BR, February 1998

H. Allen Orr and Herbert Gintis
Why Do We Cooperate?
An exchange on genes and culture -- in response to Orr's "The Softer Side of Sociobiology"

BR, April/May 1998

Robert C. Berwick and Jeremy C. Ahouse
Darwin on the Mind: a review of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works
Evolutionary psychology is in fashion -- but is any of it true?

Steven Pinker
How the Mind Really Works
Pinker responds to Berwick and Ahouse's review.

Berwick and Ahouse Reply

H. Allen Orr
The Big Picture
E.O. Wilson's Consilience is ambitious, vague, and philosophically naive.

H. Allen Orr
Gould on God
Can religion and science be reconciled?

John Alcock
Misbehavior
How Stephen Jay Gould is wrong about evolution.

H. Allen Orr
No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence

H. Allen Orr and William A. Dembski
Exchange: Darwin and Design

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