Author: Paul Nelson
When Nature Resists: Explaining the Origin of the Animal Phyla
Several years ago, PZ Myers inaugurated what he called “Paul Nelson Day” (April 7), his annual lampooning of me for my failure to articulate the concept of “ontogenetic depth.”
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #7, Peer-Reviewed Science Raises Doubts about Darwin
As soon as I read the paper’s abstract, my pulse quickened.
The Humpty-Dumpty Effect: A Revolutionary Paper with Far-Reaching Implications
A highly enriched soup of proteins and nucleic acids will never form a functional cell, even if lipid bilayer membranes were provided to help these materials become organized.
Coyne Disses Shapiro, but Shapiro Inspires Koonin — and Natural Selection Is the Main Issue
Although their offices are located only one block apart on the University of Chicago campus, the biological perspectives of Jerry Coyne and Jim Shapiro might as well be located in different galaxies.
Naturalism Under the Microscope
Methodological naturalism — the philosophical doctrine that scientific explanations must refer only to natural causes — is the central and most controversial concept in all discussions of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.