Category: Evolution
How Microscopy Hastened the Demise of Darwinism
Intelligent design, of which Alfred Russel Wallace is effectively the founder, gains in persuasiveness with the increase of scientific knowledge, whereas the more we know, the more Darwinism fails to persuade.
Evolutionary Psychology and Darwinism as an Id�e Fixe
Darwinism is a prime example of the kind of rigid thinking — the id�e fixe or fixed idea — that bedevils seemingly unrelated fields having to do with diet, therapy, advice, and self-help, with results that are sometimes comic, sometimes more unfortunate than that.
Information Runs The Show — The Understatement of the Century!
An interesting paper published in Nature by Evgenia et al. documents the ability of the DNA double helix to exist in a functional alternative form for 1% of the time, called an “excited state.” What does this mean for neo-Darwinism?
Homochirality: The Truth Is Out Where?
When it comes to origin of life scenarios, the only way to explain the emergence of life from purely naturalistic premises is that life, and all of its necessary components, arose by chance, or by natural laws or by some combination of both.
Vladimir Nabokov, Lepidopterist and Darwin-doubter, Has Expertise Vindicated
Novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov had “furious” Darwin-doubts. How delightful that his insight and expertise have now been impressively demonstrated, as the New York Times reports.