The funny thing is that Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne , who spearheaded getting Hedin’s course cancelled, is often heard wittering these days about people he approves of — or doesn’t disapprove of — getting Cancelled. And it’s not likely he will ever get the significance of the role he played in starting the ball rolling.
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Breaking News: Hitler vindicated because Darwin was the source of his ideas
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Tim Standish responds to Terrell Clemmons on Darwinism
Standish: The impossible task that Darwinists have is not just to show that what they propose is possible, it is to show that this is what actually happened, not just with one or two genes or traits or morphologies or whatever else you want to look at, but with the whole lot. They are masters at picking ambiguous and exceptional examples and treating them as if they are the rule.
At Salvo: What will Darwin’s faithful do as the edifice slowly crumbles?
Darwinians have been marketing attitude rather than evidence for decades. It is slowly becoming less effective.
The human genome at 20. We have some answers but way more questions now.
At The Conversation on junk DNA: Bewilderingly, scientists found that the non-coding genome was actually responsible for the majority of information that impacted disease development in humans. Such findings have made it clear that the non-coding genome is actually far more important than previously thought.
Researchers: A form of Darwinism preceded and enabled the origin of life
Those of us who are already skeptical of the immense role Darwinism is supposed to play after life already exists will find this prebiotic Darwinism hard to swallow. But reader Eric Anderson writes to assure us that that is in fact what origin of life researchers really do believe. Question: If it’s that simple, why isn’t life coming into existence from non-life all the time? As opposed to, say, never?
Behe vindicated (still not cited) at his own LeHigh University
One might ask: If things go downhill that way and “directionality and progress in evolution may be illusory,” what is the source of intelligent designs? An intelligence in or beyond nature? We’ll take either as an answer, to start a discussion.
At The Guardian: What to do about the Political Incorrectness of Darwin’s Descent of Man
We don’t think Darwin should be Cancelled either because we don’t live in the Year Zero. But if some were minded to Cancel Darwin, this would not be a very good argument against it.
At Nature Heredity Mike Behe vindicated but not cited
At Nature Heredity: Discoveries during the subsequent two decades have continued to support the idea that loss of function contributes to adaptation (Murray 2020), with cases of adaptive or beneficial loss of function being discovered across diverse organisms, genes, traits, and environments.”
Farewell to Tom Bethell (1936–2021), one of the earliest modern Darwin skeptics
Laszlo Bencze, writes to say, “I am very saddened to hear of Tom Bethell’s death. Not only was he pivotal in my turning away from Darwinism due to his 1976 Harper’s article which I clipped from the magazine and still have but we also became friends during one of his visits to California.”
The cheerfully Darwin-doubting philosopher David Berlinski interviewed on Italian TV
The English-language portion starts at about 1:30. It sounds as though the interviewer finds that Berlinski’s approach takes a bit of getting used to — but all the better.
At Inverse: Why “Darwinian Gastronomy” can’t explain the popularity of spice
It’s apparently not an adaption to reducing infection risk.
Just in time for Darwin Day: Abolitionist Frederick Douglass on evolutionary racism
Science historian Michael Flannery points out that Douglass’s comments preceded Darwin’s On the Origin of Species because the basic idea of the “modified monkey” (Thomas Huxley’s phrase) was in Lamarck (and probably in the air).
New vid: Scientists speak out on intelligent design
Scientists from a number of disciplines and cultures speak up.
How Darwinism became a dogma
Thomas Kuhn? Where are you? Could you comment on this “paradigm” stuff? It’s really your show.