Author: Evolution News
The Religion Behind SETI
Carl Sagan “believed in superior beings in space, creatures so intelligent, so powerful, as to resemble gods.”
With a Startling Candor, Oxford Scientist Admits a Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory
This just in: A rather basic question fundamental to any evolutionary account of life’s development — how “genotypes generate phenotypes,” in other words how genes build an individual creature — remains totally obscure to science.
As Alan Dershowitz and the New Film Alleged Remind Us, at the Heart of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial Was a Very Scary Book
“The highest type of all, the Caucasians, [are] represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.”
Butterfly Surveys Find Design, Not Darwin
As an alternative to playing “force the data into a Darwinian mold,” readers may wish to take part in a butterfly survey — just for the pleasure and value of getting outdoors and witnessing these delicate champions of biological design up close.
A New Film, Alleged, Tells the Real Story of the Scopes Trial
Alleged stays true to the complicated story rather than, in the manner of Inherit the Wind, turning it into a Darwinian propagandist morality cartoon.