It is perhaps the most celebrated evolutionary evidence from the genomics era. Like a grammar school teacher who knows cheating occurred when he sees identical typos in essays from different students, evolutionists know common descent occurred when they see identical junk DNA (yes we know the junk DNA often seems to be found to be functional, but that’s a different story) in the genomes of different species. In what philosopher Elliott Sober has called Modus Darwin, evolutionists reason that only evolution can account for these so-called shared errors. But is the premise true? Can only evolution account for such observations? (yes we know the evolutionary reasoning is, as usual, not scientific, but that’s a different story).  Read more

Over on Biologos there is a new column, the first of a series on “science and scientism” by Dr. Ian Hutchinson.  Hutchinson is a nuclear physicist at M.I.T.  As Dr. Hutchinson has some impressive credentials based on a long and productive scientific career, his thoughts on the nature of science might be thought to carry a weight beyond that of the regular Biologos columnists.  Thus, I read the first installment in hopes of insight beyond what one normally finds on that site. The column, which is based on Hutchinson’s new book, Monopolizing Knowledge, gets off to a good start.  He distinguishes between “science” and “scientism.”  In a quotation from his book, which introduces the column, he tells us: “Scientism says, Read More ›

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Readers may recall the Illustra Media production Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record. The documentary opens with an animation of the hideous Anomalocaris, undisputed terror of the Cambrian seas. The creature is in the news today thanks to new revelations about its fantastic vision. Sadly, it’s proven to be another tough day to be a Darwinian. Click here to continue reading>>>