Category: Evolution
What’s Morality? Don’t Ask This Darwinian Philosopher
The “morality” that Michael Ruse describes, and thinks he explains, has little to do with what just about every person actually thinks morality is.
William Dembski vs. Princeton Biologist Lee Silver
Princeton biologist Lee Silver, whose ideas on eugenics were promoted by Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik, debated intelligent design with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and mathematician William Dembski at Princeton in 2005:
How Butterfly Wings Display Brilliant Colors
Ever wonder how butterflies flash brilliant colors from their wings? It’s not done with pigment. Instead, butterflies use a trick of light that sounds like something out of Star Trek: “photonic crystals.”
How Was Darwin’s Theory Accepted? The Curious History of a Secular Creation Myth, or, Darwin’s Cultural Armor, pt. 2
In a post on July 7th I suggested that Darwinian evolution was a “scientific pip-squeak and a suit of cultural armor”. Here I would like to examine exactly how that cultural armor was historically constructed. In so doing we will see the stuff of which Darwinism is truly made.
Jonathan and Paul’s Excellent Adventure at the Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meeting
The one in which Jonathan Wells and Paul Nelson meet with friendly, open-ended questions, curiosity, and meaningful exchanges.