Category: Evolution
Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor
What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes?
Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?
Biologist Michael Denton’s structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things.
Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”
Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk.
Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology
Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems.
Could Finely Tuned Initial Conditions Create Biological Organisms?
Theologian Rope Kojonen, in an attempt to wed design and evolution, allows for this interpretation in his recent book.