Category: Evolution
Inconsistent Nature: The Enigma of Life’s Stupendous Prodigality
Nature’s prodigality is deeply puzzling, for every seemingly plausible law of biology that might account for it proves, almost whimsically, to be contradicted by numerous countervailing examples.
NCSE’s Eugenie Scott Reassures Scotland: There’s No Scientific Controversy on Evolution or Climate Change
There was little scientific substance in the presentation, particularly on the subject of evolution. Instead, Dr. Scott attempted to draw parallels between the political strategies employed by Darwin skeptics (whom she seems to think are all creationists) and Climate Change skeptics (whom she pejoratively labeled “deniers”).
Another One Bites the Dust?
If you think Darwin’s theory of evolution is as secure as Einstein’s theory of special relativity, well…maybe you’re right.
A Reason to Doubt the Real, Rather than Pretended, Confidence of Darwin Advocates
If you follow the top Darwin blogs you’ll notice how eagerly and often they go in for mocking extremely marginal and daffy creationists. PZ Myers specializes in this. So too, in his books, does Richard Dawkins.
Richard Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiments with E. coli and the Origin of New Biological Information (Updated)
Dennis Venema’s argument collapses into this: “if Darwinian evolution can do anything, then ID is wrong.” But this is not how we test ID, for ID readily allows that natural selection and random mutation can effect some changes in populations.