Category: Evolution
At National Review Online, Berlinski Skewers Darwinism as “a String of Wet Sponges on a Clothesline”
David Berlinski is the William F. Buckley Jr. of Darwin doubters.
Divining Darwin in Butterfly Genes
A team of scientists carefully examined genomes of a butterfly and a silkworm. What they found was interesting, but dubious as an example of evolutionary ancestry.
George Will on the Sociology of Science
“Are scientists a cohort without a sociology — uniquely homogenous and unanimous, without factions or interests and impervious to peer pressures or the agendas of funding agencies?”
Can’t Live Without ‘Em: The Logic and Implications of “Essential” Genes
The question of what parts in any complex system are essential for its key functions, or indeed its very existence, is one of the most interesting puzzles in engineering and biology.
Meyer and Nelson on a Failed Explanation for the Origin of the Genetic Code
Is this the end of ID, as some commentators have suggested? Can the genetic code be constructed by virtue of undirected stereochemistry?