Category: Evolution
Evolution’s Central Claim Has Not Yet Been Observed
“When, after a Christmas visit, we watch grandma leave on the train to Miami, we assume that the rest of her journey will be an extrapolation of that first quarter-mile.”
Evolution of the Mammalian Eye: Ho-Hum, No Big Deal?
Many ENV readers will be familiar with the Nilsson and Pelger paper that purports to show how the emergence of the complex mammalian eye is no problem at all for undirected natural selection.
Nature‘s Editors Warn Pope Francis
An editorial picks up on the good question of what stance Francis, who has a degree in chemistry, will take in relationship to scientific questions.
In The Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson Offers the Best Explication Yet of Nagel’s Book and the Nagel Affair
“A materialist who lived his life according to his professed convictions…wouldn’t just be a materialist: He’d be a psychopath.”
Francis I on a “Plan Inscribed in Nature”
This papacy is starting off nicely, in a number of ways. Here’s one.