Author: Daniel Witt
Battle Butterflies
Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico.
Ignorance of Evolutionary Theory as a “Superpower”
Early in her career, Celeste Nelson tried to publish a paper on chicken lung development. The reviewers were not very interested in her findings.
Was God a Bacterium?
We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved.
Synergies All the Way Down
Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.
Design Without a Designer? New Book Says Yes!
So, does the teleonomic explanation hold up? Well, we have to ask: where does “teleonomy” come from? Why does it exist?