Not what Darwin’s bulldog Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) thought: The works of Shakespeare…
Darwinism
Researchers: Steve Gould’s Punk Eek is right; evolution can pause a long time, then happen rapidly
Punctuated equilibrium is what we observe but it isn’t popular. Punk eek makes it even less likely that life develops due to unintelligent random processes. It just does not allow anywhere near enough time.
At Mind Matters News: Eric Holloway’s Weasel Libs — a variant of Mad Libs, in honor of Richard Dawkins
Eric Holloway looks at Richard Dawkins’ famous Darwinian evolution-only Weasel program in light of epigenetic information.
How could we test universal common descent?
Paul Nelson offers some thoughts.
Richard Weikart muses on the Buffalo shooter
Weikart on the Buffalo shooter: Interestingly, the manifesto this white supremacist wrote confirmed my description of white nationalism in my recent book, Darwinian Racism.
At Evolution News: How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY
West: Unfortunately, the Buffalo shooter’s evolutionary racism is not an outlier among recent mass killers. Arguments drawn from evolution have been prominent in the ideologies of many mass shooters in recent years, including Anders Breivik in 2011, a Norwegian mass murderer cited as a role model by the Buffalo shooter. Other shooters smitten by Darwinian evolution have included the Columbine High School shooters in 1999, Finnish shooter Pekka Eric Auvinen in 2007, the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter in 2009, and the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter in 2019.
Richard Weikart on the non-religious racism that anti-racists ignore
Weikart: While researching my book, Darwinian Racism, I examined the websites and publications of many neo-Nazi, white nationalist, and alt-right individuals and organizations. What I discovered was that most white nationalists and white supremacists today embrace a social Darwinist version of scientific racism and vehemently oppose Christianity.
Casey Luskin asks: Can claims about punctuated equilibrium accommodate the scientific data?
Luskin: Punctuated equilibrium compresses the vast majority of evolutionary change into small populations that lived during shorter segments of time, allowing too few opportunities for novel, beneficial traits to arise.
Is belief in evolution “right-wing?”
Yes, that sounds like clickbait but it is apparently a discussion at Twitter.
Darwin wrote a book about orchids — and it was better received than Origin of Species
Shedinger: Unlike with the Origin, the reviews were overwhelmingly positive. Reviewers were extremely impressed with Darwin’s detailed documentation of the variety of contrivances in orchids. But much to Darwin’s dismay, they did not see this as evidence of natural selection.
Few want to hear this but … Darwinism made racism science
For reasons familiar to anyone who follows human psychology, our group was supposed to be the smartest. We were told to be nice to the others anyway. They couldn’t help their stupidity, nor could we. That was the view smart people had. Stupid Fundamentalists, by contrast, still believed in Adam and Eve…
Weird story: Darwin prof targets Discovery Institute
Take the term “Darwinism,” for instance. Dave claims “Darwinism” is “outdated” and “dishonest”: But isn’t Darwinism the Darwinist’s proudest boast? Didn’t even Lynn Margulis have to go along with it?
New Zealand science society is even more Woke than we thought
What Coyne doesn’t get re the New Zealand injustices to scientists is that atheism does that to people. There is no avenue of appeal and nothing to appeal about. Belief in God creates reason.
Richard Buggs’s talk on the abominable mystery of flowers now available
Intro: Charles Darwin was convinced that the evolution of complexity must proceed by tiny steps. Only tiny steps could be accumulated by natural selection. The process had to go slowly for it to work. Billions of years were needed. But Darwin was aware that this theory had a problem: flowers.
Wokeness: Darwin wails but it hardly matters now
Some day, the Darwinians will discover freedom of religion. In the meantime, let them find out what no freedom feels like. It will sharpen their instincts.