“Genetical Darwinism cannot accommodate the role of development (and of genes in development) in many evolutionary processes.”
Month: January 2012
Michael Behe on Lenski’s lambda virus: “Darwinian evolution took a little step sideways and two big steps backwards.”
“To me, the much more significant results of the new paper, although briefly mentioned, were not stressed as they deserved to be. “
Best Schools blog: If moral relativism is a disease, Darwinism isn’t the cure
“There is a great danger that the Darwinian-reductionist cure may turn out to be worse than the relativist disease.”
The Evolution of Evolution: Are Living Things Intelligently Designed to Evolve?
In his recent review (Genome Biology and Evolution, first published online January 24, 2012, doi:10.1093/gbe/evs008) of Professor James A. Shapiro’s new book, Evolution: a view from the 21st century (2011, FT Press: Upper Saddle River, N.J.), Adam S. Wilkins expresses his disagreement with Shapiro’s decidedly un-Darwinian view that natural selection’s importance for evolution has been […]
Engineering and Metaphysics Conference – Last Day for Early-Bird Pricing
I’ve mentioned the Engineering and Metaphysics conference a few times before. Basically, it is a conference dealing with the interaction between the nature of nature, and the nature of engineering. How does the nature of nature affect engineering? What does engineering tell us about the nature of nature? It’s somewhat of a practical followup to […]
Darwin lobby trashed Texas evolution standards, but Fordham Institute says they’re mostly okay
“Science standards that challenge some of evolution’s most glaring weaknesses have been described as “exemplary” not as intelligent design talking points.”
Space aliens: The reason they avoid us is that we exist and they don’t – mathematician
“… we don’t know enough about how life got started on Earth to be able to recognize alien life, even if it were staring us in the face.”
Nature broadcaster David Attenborough definitely renounces atheism? Thinks Darwinism is only a theory?
“People write to me that evolution is only a theory … “What is a theory is whether natural selection is the mechanism and the only mechanism. That is a theory. “
Reviewing James Shapiro’s book, Darwinist admits: Growing number of gene scientists unconvinced by Darwinism
They’re not ID supporters. They just know that there is more to evolution than the Darwin lobby tells the mainstream media.
Alleged, movie about the Scopes Trial: “You can’t walk away from the truth”
vs. “Some lies just have to be told.”
Missouri: Bill to give equal treatment to intelligent design, evolution?
To judge from its length and detail, the assembly could pass the bill as an alternative to reading it.
Could life thrive on other planets in undersea caves?
“If life exists elsewhere in our solar system, it most likely would be found in water-filled subterranean environments, perhaps equivalent to those we are studying in the Bahamas.”
Roger Scruton: Missing the main problem with evolutionary psychology
If evidence showed that theorists were wrong about Neanderthal man, why believe evolutionary psychologists, who have no evidence for attitudes and behaviour 70 thousand years ago?
Gray Lady down: Britain’s Daily Mail Web site outpaces New York Times’?
The new media landscape will be full of upsets like this, and an obvious question around here is how will that affect ID.
Is intelligence inherited? Jane North and Jane South take the state IQ test.
The “it’s-in-the-genes” approach to genetic inheritance overlooks the fact that an inheritance of any kind is an opportunity, not a prophecy.