Category: Evolution
Family Size in Affluent Cultures: Another Failed Prediction of Darwinian Theory
In Seattle, instead of children, people have dogs.
A Philosopher Chastises Reductionist Myopia
“Through their thorough arguments, the essays in Processes of Life challenge widely held assumptions about biology and evolution. Dupre provides a view of life grounded in recent research and current understanding. His perspective also reminds us how much we do not know.”
Hitler, Evolution and the Historical Context
Darwinian theory allowed a framework and easy fit into which Hitler’s Nazis could cast their racial program as both scientific and even inexorable.
The Perverse Conservatism of Academic Culture
Darwin advocates are always telling us how in academic science overturning bad old ideas is strongly encouraged since for young scholars that’s the way to make your name.
Conservation of Information Made Simple
Conservation of information is not a difficult concept and once it is understood, it becomes clear that evolutionary processes cannot create the information required to power biological evolution.