Category: Evolution
Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will
How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust?
Rosenhouse Roundup
Jason Rosenhouse wrote an anti-ID book for Cambridge U. Press that our colleague, his fellow mathematician William Dembski, reviewed.
Darwin, Lyell, and Demythologization
The term demythologization is today most frequently associated with the mid 20th-century German theologian Rudolf Bultmann.
Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck
The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.”
Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from Biology? A Philosopher and a Biologist Want to Try
They propose the term “biological role” instead. Thus, presumably, “the function of teeth is chewing” becomes “the biological role of teeth is chewing.”