Mivart was one of those respectable non-Darwinian paleontologists who got buried in the tide of Darwinism. We are asked to note a fairly recent discussion of his contributions to paleontology.
Darwinism
Is the universe two billion years younger than we think?
If that’s true, then the idea that Darwinism (purely random mutations that survive or not explain the awesomely complex life forms we are engulfed in) is even less plausible.
Did some prominent Darwinists retire recently?
A new study seems to substantiate Max Planck’s quip that new paradigms arise when the supporters of the old ones die.
How scientists slowly convert to the idea that the universe itself is alive
Remember as you read about Gaia and “life’s ability to shape the universe,” that this op-ed appeared in Scientific American, not Mystic Waters News. Listen carefully and, somewhere in the background, you will hear Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne crooning, “I fought Woo-WOO and woo-WOO won.” Some North American readers will recognize a musical snatch here. In fairness, we warned them. ID isn’t the big enemy. ID proposes to reform evolution studies along real-world lines, not to dump the canon of science.
Darwinism IS a beautiful theory. but then so is astrology
The idea that natural selection acting on random mutation could fill the world with exquisitely complex life forms makes sense to fashionable intellectuals today and it doesn’t happen to be true.
Gunter Bechly: Farewell, says the apeman
Why wave goodbye? Because if this skull is a guide, the transition from not-really-Lucy to a-bit-like-Lucy to almost-Lucy to Hi, Lucy!! never really happened.
Financial Times claims that there is a coming boom in honesty
Given that political correctness is organized lying (usually for control and profit), a boom in political incorrectness is a boom in honesty.
Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the science world: Fallout
In the wake of Epstein’s apparent suicide in prison, his predilection for funding science organizations as a virtuous cover make for reading worthy of an airport potboiler. But from some of this, there may be something to be learned.
Demand for a ban on teaching creationism in Welsh schools
Tradejah! Let’s have a ban on teaching Darwinism too. Oh wait — is that what’s supposed to be introduced early and often, because the “Wales Humanists coordinator” and “Humanists UK” want it? Darwinism is an obvious intrusion of religion into the school system. A different religion from what many people follow, but still a religion. Otherwise, why would humanists care so much?
Brit commentator Melanie Phillips weighs in on David Gelernter dumping Darwin
For many intellectuals, it must seem like an agonizing, nasty divorce but Phillips would be well placed to take it in stride.
Some people hope we can just “evolve” inventions like self-driving cars
The other day at the DeepMind blog, someone came up with an idea for improving Waymo’s self-driving cars: Evolution
Lay Catholics questioning Darwinism?
For some years, it has not been the practice of many Catholics to question Darwinism. Most got sucked years ago into some muddle according to which the great theologian Thomas Aquinas didn’t supposedly think there could be such a thing as observable design in nature because that would make God a “tinkerer.” Some tinker. Anyway, […]
Three scholars of “biodiversity and biology” suggest ditching the Darwinian descent of man graphic
If these biodiversity profs really need to muddy the history as much as this, maybe things are even worse than we knew. Stay tuned.
The Manhattan Contrarian on David Gelernter abandoning Darwinism
What would an urban sophisticate make of doubts about Darwinism? Once the enforcement trolls have been banished below stairs, hasn’t Darwinism become something people patter at cocktail parties, so that others know that they are bicoastal and just deplore! their privilege? Instead of being genuine deplorables who might doubt?
Paper: Sperm cells take up genetic material from outside themselves
If the Weismann barrier is broken, that’s barbarians at the gates of textbook Darwinism, no? It turns out, all sorts of sources can contribute to inheritance.