Month: December 2012
Darwinism and Stalinism, Cont.
In the strange netherworld of Internet Darwinists, the blogger Sensuous Curmudgeon wins a prize for strained humor and a unique adenoidal shrieking quality.
Confusing Similarity with Evolutionary History
If common descent, or “descent with modification” as Darwin called it, is true, there should be traces of this process in the genomes of organisms.
Biomimetics Strikes Again
Woodpecker skull design inspires an improved bike helmet.
British Center for Science Education Admits Alliance with Religious Believers Is Strictly to Gain “Tactical Advantage”
It’s recently been reported that in the United Kingdom certain “Free Schools” (sort of like charter schools in the U.S.) now risk losing their funding if they “teach creationism.”
The Awkward Secret that Plagues Population Genetics and Darwinian Evolutionary Theory
Of course, everything depends on the assumptions you bring with you to such studies, notably that similarity implies common ancestry.