Category: Evolution
For Labor Day: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man
This year, 2023, marks the bicentennial of the birth of Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
An Impressive Instance of Unguided Evolution? Not So Much
“There is a desire for the theory to be true in spite of the science,” says Cornelius Hunter, “not because of the science.”
What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism
Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life’s history.
Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong
Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.
Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection
The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others.