Author: Douglas Axe
Website: https://evolutionnews.org/author/daxe
Theory Creep: The Quiet Shift in Evolutionary Thought
Today’s biologists clearly have realized that evolutionary theory must be revised to avoid conflict with genomic data.
Applied Darwinism: A New Paper from Bob Marks and His Team, in BIO-Complexity
Computational implementations of the Darwinian mechanism only work in a very limited sense.
On Protein Origins, Getting to the Root of Our Disagreement with James Shapiro
It’s as though most scientists are unwilling to put these fundamental ideas to a serious test.
Let Science Be the Arbiter: A Reply to James Shapiro
If Shapiro holds that the answers to the great questions of biology all reside in the material components of life and their arrangement, then he must realize this to be just another philosophical position.
The Science of Denial
Scientists sometimes find themselves wishing things were different. In one sense that’s a thoroughly unremarkable observation. After all, scientists are human, and humans have always found themselves wishing things were different.But what if some of the things scientists wish were different are the very things they have devoted themselves to studying? In other words, forget about salaries, teaching loads, and grant funding. What if some scientists want the brute facts of their own field of study to be other than what they really are? As odd as it may seem, particularly to non-scientists, that tension between preference and reality has always been a part of doing science. Like everyone else, scientists don’t just have ideas — they favor them… even Read More ›