Month: May 2012
From Jerry Coyne, More Table-Pounding, Hand-Waving
Telelogy is data. And that should be repeated ten times before lunch, every day.
On Animal Planet, Aquatic Apes, a/k/a Mermaids
We’re left with the vague feeling that “scientific” culture has crossed a threshold here.
Subverting Darwinism from Within: The Quiet Revolution of Mary Jane West-Eberhard
West-Eberhard’s work helps to upend the Darwinian project by showing how target-directedness lies at the heart of any realistic explanatory framework in evolutionary biology.
Would Darwin, If He Rejoined Us, Be a Darwin-Doubter?
The question is irresistible and calls as much for the mind of a novelist as that of a biologist. Nickell John Romjue gives it a whirl.
How Scientism Misrepresents Reality
Consider the study of the movements of the keys on my keyboard as I type this. The most basic study would be of the physics of the keys.