Month: February 2011
The Martin Gaskell Case: Not an Isolated Incident
With David Coppedge’s case being just the latest, there is a long line of Darwin doubters who have been discriminated against. David Klinghoffer has a published a piece at NRO’s The Corner,
How Microscopy Hastened the Demise of Darwinism
Intelligent design, of which Alfred Russel Wallace is effectively the founder, gains in persuasiveness with the increase of scientific knowledge, whereas the more we know, the more Darwinism fails to persuade.
NASA’s JPL Could Face Wrongful Termination Suit For Firing Darwin Doubter
According to the Pasadena Star News: A computer administrator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was laid off last week plans to add retaliation charges – and a possible free speech violation claim – to a pending discrimination suit against his former employer, an attorney said Wednesday.
Evolutionary Psychology and Darwinism as an Id�e Fixe
Darwinism is a prime example of the kind of rigid thinking — the id�e fixe or fixed idea — that bedevils seemingly unrelated fields having to do with diet, therapy, advice, and self-help, with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes more unfortunate than that.
Information Runs The Show — The Understatement of the Century!
An interesting paper published in Nature by Evgenia et al. documents the ability of the DNA double helix to exist in a functional alternative form for 1% of the time, called an “excited state.” What does this mean for neo-Darwinism?