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A Logical Misunderstanding About Design Arguments

Many materialists are confused about the obsession of ID’ers with Darwinian evolution. They believe that our targeting of Darwin is misguided for the simple reason that showing that Darwin is wrong doesn’t make us correct. On the simple face of it that is correct—showing that X is false doesn’t make Y true. However, the story of Darwin and design is deeper than that, and to understand why ID’ers target Darwin you have to understand more of the story. For the next two paragraphs, if you are a Darwinist, set that to the side for a moment to at least understand where the ID’er is coming from. To an ID’er, the biological world screams design. That is, nearly every thing in Read More ›

Maybe the best defence of Darwinism is now ignorance of the problems

Gilson: They said things like, “I don’t need to read this to know it’s ignorant.” Which is a fine way to expose their own ignorance: They had no idea what they were talking about, and acted proud of it! Read More ›

If we can’t find aliens Out There, we can always declare local life forms to be aliens

The obvious problem the comb jelly (ctenophore) raises is that complex systems had to arise twice, not once, by alleged Darwinian chance. If you doubted chance before, you just doubled your chances of doubting it. Read More ›

Astonishing! Ultra-Darwinism explicitly ridiculed at Harvard

Release: "Until just a decade ago, the idea of epigenetic inheritance would have made Greer an object of scientific ridicule. ... The prevailing evolutionary dogma has been natural selection, as put forth by Darwin... Read More ›

More pop science fallout re Jeffrey Epstein: Stu Pivar and PZ Myers

No, no, Pivar and Myers didn’t do anything except fall out—with litigation threatened. But there’s an Epstein connection in the story—as there seems to be to a lot of things Darwin these says. And, say what you want, that guy Epstein sure picked his targets. Read More ›

Straw in the wind? Darwin’s random variation is discredited in a recent paper

They propose “nonrandom variation”. Later: “Darwin's idea that variation is generated randomly has largely been taken for granted rather than tested, representing a fundamental gap in our understanding of evolution.” Read More ›