Natural selection
Asked at Oscillations: Why is the Khan Academy so stuck on “natural selection” in evolution?
Do Darwinians believe in magic?
ASU’s Michael Lynch’s new book takes aim at “natural selection” as a sum total explanation
Suzan Mazur at Oscillations: “Natural selection” unit removed from AP biology exam
A Polish MP says Darwinian natural selection means anti-Semitic pogroms benefited Jewish people
At Oscillations: “Natural selection” issue stirs again at College Boards
Mike Behe looks at the actual gears in bugs
Does survival of the fittest not apply to frogs?
Paley’s Ghost speaks out: the problem of [neo-]darwinist evolutionary incrementalism
One of the common weak arguments against the design inference on functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information (FSCO/I, a functional form of specified complexity) is the idea that body-plan level macro-evolution is “simply” the accumulation of lots and lots of micro-evolutionary adaptations in a grand climb of fitness. It seems to be back on the table, so let us highlight its fundamental flaw through an infographic: Notice, how easy it is to trap a process that depends on loose-sense hill-climbing. Where, too, the FSCO/I origin challenge can be similarly summarised: That fitness peaks will naturally occur as islands of function amidst vast seas of non-function should be obvious from the need for correct, matched, properly arranged and coupled parts Read More ›
Researchers: Something like human beings had to eventually come along
Suzan Mazur: World Science Festival is purveying an out-of-date Darwinism
Survival at a price: Bacteria cut off flagella to stay alive
New monument to Alfred Russel Wallace
In Sulawesi, Indonesia. Wallace, Darwin’s ignored co-discoverer, had explored a good deal in that area: A very impressive 1.5 meter tall bust of Wallace on a 2.6 meter high plinth was inaugurated on the 21st February 2019 at the well known Tangkoko Nature Reserve in north-east Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is certainly the largest and most imposing monument to Wallace in the world so far. It is also the first bust or 3D likeness of him outside the UK and the first monument to him in Wallacea, the biogeographical region which is named in his honour. George Beccaloni, “Impressive New Monument to Alfred Russel Wallace in Sulawesi, Indonesia” at The Alfred Russel Wallace Website Interesting coincidence with finding Wallace’s (thought-extinct) bee. Read More ›