Recant! Pushing Creeds as Damage Control for Darwin (Update)

Biologist Thomas H. Huxley, the great defender of Darwin, once famously warned that "Science commits suicide when she adopts a creed." Unfortunately, not all modern evolutionary biologists respect such wisdom.

Consider a January, 2011 op-ed at Christian Science Monitor by Steve Newton of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Mr. Newton boasts that biologist Eugene V. Koonin agrees with the famous Darwinian geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, who once declared, "Nothing biology...