Year: 2014
At the New York Times, It’s Another Day, and Another Occasion to Pretend the Scientific Debate About Darwin Doesn’t Exist
Bloviating on a Pew survey revealing a purportedly growing "evolution gap," columnist Charles Blow stepped in it over the weekend.
Multiverse Cosmology: Assuming that Evidence Still Matters, What Does It Say?
The multiverse is a religious concept. It is the sort of religion that is true even if the supportive facts never appear and the theories that undergird it fail.
Shark Proteins Contradict the Standard Phylogeny of Vertebrates
In the thinking of evolutionary biologists, can common descent, even in principle, be falsified?
"Was Hitler a Darwinian?" Reviewing Robert Richards
A scholar disputes the Hitler-Darwin connection and snipes at “the Intelligent Design crowd.”
Misunderstanding Understanding Jerry Coyne on Free Will
Coyne, who denies the existence of free will, had complained about a hit-and-run driver who dented his car in a parking lot.