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...competing theories have sprung up between the extremes of creationism and evolution, among them Theistic Evolution and Intelligent Design, but in the 150 years since Wilberforce met Huxley, the controversy has come no closer to even the most uneasy of resolutions. All of this makes the reemergence of aging entomologist Edward O. Wilson a welcome development. Because for Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus in Entomology and author of “The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,” the apparently insurmountable opposition between scientific inquiry and religious thought evaporates in the face of a common...
Informed conciliators have recently become more vocal. Stanford University biologist Joan Roughgarden has just come out with Evolution and Christian Faith, which provides what she calls a "strong Christian defense" of evolutionary biology, illustrating the discipline's major concepts with biblical passages. Entomologist Edward O. Wilson, a famous skeptic of standard faith, has written The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, urging believers and non-believers to unite over conservation. But foremost of those arguing for common ground is Francis Collins...
...There’s no doubt that bedbugs have become resurgent and spread considerably,” wrote entomologist and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researcher Richard J. Pollack, a noted expert on bedbugs and lice, in an e-mail...
...talent for brushing up against interesting people and things--literally. He occasionally got into trouble for groping a piece of statuary or other priceless artifact, and his biographer takes full advantage of any occasion for a rich, satisfying digression. Holman met Franois Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...
...severity of the rodent problem in Adams was the impetus for a University-wide rodent-control program led by Harvard’s entomologist, Gary Alpert, who works in the University’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety...