Month: June 2011
John Lennon, Darwin Doubter
Reaching the status of superstar legendary entertainer must, like being a very aged person, grant you a certain immunity from the need to shape your opinions to secure social approval.
Haeckelian Recapitulation Is Not the Issue
PZ is correct that recapitulation theory has been discarded by modern evolutionary biologists, but Jonathan M. and other ID proponents aren’t talking about Haeckel’s theory.
Demystifying the Debate with PZ Myers Over Evolution and Embryology
Leading embryologists argue that vertebrate embryos develop so differently that the pharyngular stage may not exist.
How P.Z. Myers’ “Incendiary Rhetoric” and “Class-War Claptrap” Shocks His Fellow Evolutionists (Prelude to a Rebuttal)
Personal attacks from PZ Myers are so uncivil that they have earned criticism from mainstream academics and writers who are pro-evolution.
Jerry Coyne on the Scientific Method and Religion
The scientific method — the empirical systematic theory-based study of nature — has nothing to so with some religious inspirations — and everything to do with Christian (and Jewish) inspiration.