Author: David Coppedge
Sophisticated Precision in Fruit Fly Sensory Systems
Pause before you swat. The sensory systems of fruit flies that let them discern their surroundings look as if they had been engineered.
Fruit Fly Eyes and More Surprises for Darwin
Don’t swat too quickly! There’s more awe in that little fly than might be apparent from a cursory glance.
Rescuing Chance for Darwinism
When papers claim that Darwinism works by selecting unspecified and unplanned variations, do their best empirically studied examples demonstrate it?
Hidden, Now Revealed: Amazonia, Fitness Landscapes, and Fibonacci Numbers
The caption for one image of spiral galaxy NGC 628 notes: “The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell.”
Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized
An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation.