Category: Evolution
We Get Poor-Mouthed by the National Center for Science Education
To “poor-mouth” means using claims of poverty to try to manipulate other people.
“More Philosophical than Scientific”: Parsing a Rationalization
If you want to show that evolution does not violate the second law, you cannot simply say, sure, evolution is astronomically improbable, but the Earth is an open system, so there is no problem.
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution
When the biogeographical data does not fit with the predictions and expectations of common descent, one always has “oceanic dispersal” at the ready to serve as an ad hoc fudge factor — including the rather remarkable claim that monkeys made it across the Atlantic from Africa to South America!
Stylus‘s Evolutionary Simulation Aims to Bridge Gap Between Real World and Artificial
Stylus manipulates digital objects that have real-world meaning: the targets of evolution in Stylus are Chinese characters.
Darwinian Logic: The Latest on Chimp and Human DNA
Picture an Ouroboros, the alchemical symbol of a snake with its own tail in its mouth. Do you get the feeling that Darwinian “logic” is taking us nowhere?