Month: December 2012
At Why Evolution Is True, the Chewbacca Defense
Jerry Coyne’s attempt to intimidate Paul Nelson with seeming recantations from scientists who doubted the power of natural selection has drawn many responses from readers.
Top Five Problems with Current Origin-of-Life Theories
Most theorists believe that there were many steps involved in the origin of life, but the very first step would have involved a primordial soup — a water-based sea of simple organic molecules.
Words With Friends
In the evolution debate, Professor Stephen Barr’s signature contribution has been an attempt to define the word “random” in an idiosyncratic way.
Jerry Coyne is Upset at Paul Nelson: Be Encouraged
There is hardly a scientific argument against Nelson to be found either in Coyne’s comments or in the comments of the scientists he contacted.
Darwinism and Stalinism
Biographically speaking, reading Darwin’s Origin was seminal in Stalin’s own march toward a godless communism.