RS Meeting Not Provocative Enough for You? The Action Shifts Tomorrow to Cambridge University

A colleague walking the halls at Discovery Institute in Seattle offers a blunt assessment of the proceedings at the Royal Society in London: "It sounds like it was a dud." Another comments by email, "Except for an occasional outburst (such as [Eva Jablonka's] "Not God -- we're excluding God"), it sounds as though it was quite boring." Well, that's admittedly second-hand.

As I began receiving reports from friendly scientists in the crowd, I had been expecting news of orthodox neo-Darwinists a...