Author: Paul Nelson
Still Awaiting Engagement: A Reply to Robert Bishop on Darwin’s Doubt
What matters is whether any of these theories can explain what needs to be explained: the origin of novel animal body plans and the biological information necessary to produce them.
Still Awaiting Full Engagement: Ralph Stearley’s "Well, Maybe, Who Knows?" Review of Darwin’s Doubt
If real, design is a datum of nature, like it or not. Bad philosophies of science, like materialism, need to get out of the way.
Evolution Used the Same Molecular Toolkit? Common Sense from Jonathan Marks
Marks is an evolutionary biologist/anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, and an uncommonly plain speaker and writer.
On Paul Nelson Day 2014: The Target Problem
Thanks to P.Z. Myers’s annual lampoon of me, I’ve thought more deeply about the relationship between development and evolution than I ever expected to do.
On Neo-Darwinism, Denis Noble Puts It Bluntly (and Accurately)
At Why Evolution Is True, Jerry Coyne sputters with indignation that Oxford physiologist Noble had the effrontery to criticize textbook evolutionary theory.