Category: Evolution
Darwin Plagiarism Charge Resurfaces in Time for Alfred Russel Wallace Documentary and Debate
Wallace would break from Darwin in 1869 and develop a theory of intelligent evolution that in many ways presaged modern intelligent design theory.
A Response to Ann Gauger’s and Douglas Axe’s Comments
Continuing a conversation initiated by Bill Dembski (“Is James Shapiro a Design Theorist?”)…
Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues that the Origin of Life Required “Purposeful Choices”
What is it that distinguishes life from non-living entities?
Let Science Be the Arbiter: A Reply to James Shapiro
If Shapiro holds that the answers to the great questions of biology all reside in the material components of life and their arrangement, then he must realize this to be just another philosophical position.
Evolutionary Psychology Meets Economics 101
In an effort to show that “evolution” has vast explanatory power, David Barash refers to a survey of graduate students in public health at Harvard.