Month: July 2011
Fewer Mutations Means More Time
With only 60 mutations per generation, even given that some families may mutate more and others less, it does not seem feasible that mutations coupled with natural selection has enough time to create the divergence that we see today.
What the Collapse of the Case against Strauss-Kahn Suggests about the Darwin Debate
An opinion can one day be widely judged to be absolutely watertight, so that questioning it renders you shameful, foolish, ignorant and obscurantist — yet the very next day, the case for it collapses and everyone scrabbles to explain why they didn’t see this coming from miles off.
Caught in Contradictions, PZ Myers Claims “Evolutionary Theory Predicts Differences as well as Similarities” (and Therefore Predicts Nothing) (Updated)
If PZ is correct that evolutionary biology predicts both similarities and differences among embryos, then evolutionary biology makes no predictions and is unfalsifiable regarding the similarities and differences in vertebrate development.
Michael Denton on the Collapse of the Darwinian Paradigm and the Coming Revolution
The Role of Creation in Science: The Real Story, a Breath of Fresh Air
Whenever accuracy takes precedence over ideology it is a breath of fresh air and a real boon to education everywhere.