Year: 2018
#2 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Behe’s Darwin Devolves Topples Foundational Claim of Evolution
The evidence commonly cited to argue for evolution’s ability to drive large-scale transformations is almost always circular.
#3 of Our Top Stories of 2018: For Paleoanthropology, Another Annus Horribilis
In 2001, French scientist Alain Beauvilain and three Chadian colleagues discovered a fossil cranium in the dunes of the Chadian Sahara Desert.
#4 of Our Top Stories of 2018: A First Human Couple? New Evidence and Arguments
A bottleneck of two, or a first pair at our origin older than 500,000 years, is possible.
The Intelligent Design Underground and Other Reflections
A biologist in our network worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. He recounted how about a quarter of the postdocs he encountered were at least sympathetic to design arguments.
#5 of Our Top Stories of 2018: It’s Not “Evolution” — A Nobel Prize for Engineering Enzymes
In effect, protein engineers are using the power of random change plus intelligent design to see what if anything will improve function.