Month: August 2011
Tisha b’Av: Mourning the Veil over Nature’s Design
Today is the 9th day in the Hebrew month of Av, a mourning day in Judaism called Tisha b’Av, meaning simply “9th of Av.”
The Human Kidney, By Design
Note this interesting observation by Albert Einstein College of Medicine epidemiologist Michael Alderman.
Metamorphosis Will Have Northwest Premiere in Seattle, Saturday, August 13
Metamorphosis gorgeously documents the beauty and mystery of butterflies. Are they the products of a blind, undirected process? Or were they intelligently designed?
Butterfly Patterns: Convergent Evolution or Design?
Recently a single gene was found responsible for the red colors in one butterfly genus. Does this strengthen the case for convergent evolution, or any kind of evolution?
What We Argue About When We Argue About Evolution
Among hot-button controversies of the day, Darwinian evolution may be unique in being a question on which people express forceful opinions all the time, at high levels of the media and politics, all under a protocol where it’s the norm to have not even a basic idea what you’re talking about.