Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, via Wikimedia Commons.

American zoologist T. D. A. Cockerell, writing for The Dialon April 16, 1911, reviewed Alfred Russel Wallaces then-recently releasedThe World of Life. He wrotecautiously but approvingly.

Being thus a work of philosophy as well as science, it necessarily covers much debatable ground. Those of us who are not prepared to follow Dr. Wallace in all the intricacies of his personal faith, may nevertheless feel very strongly that he has done well in bringing forward his solution of the riddle of the ages, the result of more than fifty years of thought.

Indeed Cockerells confidence is confirmed today more than ever. A new edition of Wallace book, Intelligent Evolution: How WallacesWorld of LifeChallenged Darwinism, is out now, edited by science historian Michael Flannery. In his Foreword to the new book, William A. Dembski notes how current scholarship is demolishing the neo-Darwinian paradigm and confirming Wallace at almost every turn. Dembski says that staunch Darwinian defender [Jerry]Coynes one going theory may be steadilygoing away.

When we look at that first generation of modern evolutionists, from Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley to John Tyndall and Herbert Spencer, only Wallaces postulation of an Overruling Intelligence to explain the complexities of humanity and nature has stood the test of time. To understand his enduring presence in biology as well as natural theology,The World of Lifeis indispensable. Once his thought is placed in context and illuminated by the latest research and historiography, as it is inIntelligent Evolution, youll understand why Wallace remains evolutions last man standing. Order yourcopytoday.

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