Month: December 2012
Rational Justification as Detailed Articulation: A Reply to Barham and Nagel
Nagel offers no concrete proposal of what a teleological process capable of originating biological complexity might look like.
As Evidence of Darwinian Evolution, Biogeography Falls Well Short of Satisfying
Biogeography is the field that seeks to explain the global distribution of organisms by reference to migration, continental drift, and so on.
Evolution Defenders as the “Help-Rejecting Complainer”
Physicians would call this person the “Difficult Patient.”
Bothersome Bats and Other Pests Disturb the “Tree of Life”
A recent paper in the journal Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society offers some striking comments about the prevalence of discordance among phylogenetic trees.
From Jerry Coyne, “Evolution-of-the-Gaps” and Other Fallacies
In Chapter 3 of his book, Coyne turns his attention to the argument from suboptimal design.