H. Allen Orr

H. Allen Orr is Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester.

Darwin and Design

A debate about the latest defense of intelligent design.

  • William A. Dembski
  • H. Allen Orr

A Sublime Detective Story

William Dembski's No Free Lunch makes a confused case for Intelligent Design.

  • H. Allen Orr

Gould on God

Can religion and science be happily reconciled?

  • H. Allen Orr

The Big Picture

A review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E. O. Wilson.

  • H. Allen Orr

The Softer Side of Sociobiology

The origins of human virtue remain far from certain.

  • H. Allen Orr

Darwin v. Intelligent Design (Again)

The latest attack on evolution is cleverly argued, biologically informed—and wrong

  • H. Allen Orr

The Scope of Natural Selection

An exchange.

  • Daniel Dennett
  • H. Allen Orr

Dennett’s Strange Idea

On Darwin’s Dangerous Idea.

  • H. Allen Orr
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