Author: Michael Denton
Non-Adaptive Order: An Existential Challenge to Darwinian Evolution
If many of the taxa-defining homologs are non-adaptive, the whole Darwinian enterprise breaks down entirely.
On Darwin Day, Darwinism Is Well Past Its "Sell By" Date
Today is Darwin Day, marking the birthday of Charles Darwin, who is celebrated around the world as a secular saint.
Natural Life: Cosmological Fine-Tuning as an Argument for Structuralism
If nature is so fine-tuned for life’s environment, might the fine-tuning not also include a set of laws of form, geared to actualize the forms of life on earth?
Two Views of Biology: Structuralism vs. Functionalism
A structuralist view suggests the biological realm is undergirded by “crystal-like” primal patterns, specified in the laws of nature.
What the Galápagos Finches Tell Us About Evolution
While Darwin’s finches demonstrate that natural selection can generate small degrees of adaptive change, they also reveal sharp limits to the mechanism.