Darwinism
Did Victorian sexism influence Darwin’s theory of sexual selection? Of course it did.
At Evolution News: Darwin in the schools campaigner got it all wrong on pseudogenes
Weikart’s new book on Darwinian racism drops February 1, free webinar February 3
Michael Ruse lecture makes interesting admission re Darwinism and atheists, agnostics
Commentator Vox Day has some harsh words for E.O’ Wilson’s detractors at Scientific American
Is Darwinism an “Empty Theory”?
At Evolution and News, there’s a link to a 2017 article tackling the problems of inflationary theory in the field of cosmology. What I find so interesting is the second to last paragraph in this six page article. Here’s how it reads: A common misconception is that experiments can be used to falsify a theory. In practice, a failing theory gets increasingly immunized against experiment by attempts to patch it. The theory becomes more highly tuned and arcane to fit new observations until it reaches a state where its explanatory power diminishes to the point that it is no longer pursued. The explanatory power of a theory is measured by the set of possibilities it excludes. More immunization means less Read More ›