Month: November 2011
Butterfly Surveys Find Design, Not Darwin
As an alternative to playing “force the data into a Darwinian mold,” readers may wish to take part in a butterfly survey — just for the pleasure and value of getting outdoors and witnessing these delicate champions of biological design up close.
Evolution Is a Movie Running Backward
That is what makes it so different from other phenomena in our universe, and why it demands a very different sort of explanation.
Alfred Russel Wallace 98 Years Later
What would surprise Wallace the most were he to be transported to this world 98 years later? At least seven things come to mind.
A New Film, Alleged, Tells the Real Story of the Scopes Trial
Alleged stays true to the complicated story rather than, in the manner of Inherit the Wind, turning it into a Darwinian propagandist morality cartoon.
The Case of the Mysterious Hoatzin: Biogeography Fails Neo-Darwinism Again
What’s the evidence that primates, rodents, and lizards crossed oceans on rafts?