Category: Evolution
In Ediacaran Seas, Huge Rangeomorphs Appeared with a “Bang”
Anything that Simon Conway Morris puts his name on is of immediate interest, but this would seem to evade the most fascinating question of all in life’s history.
Gallup Poll Is Blind to Support for Intelligent Design
Tom Krattenmaker of Yale Divinity School spots what he sees as good news.
Molecular Machines Use Physics to Do Mechanical Work
Recent findings show cellular machinery using pushes, pulls, and even electrical forces to accomplish physical work.
Return of the Christmas Pony – Robert Marks on Modeling Darwinian Evolution
Maybe evolution is just too complicated to model? Or maybe computer simulations have already provided a sufficient demonstration that evolution works as advertised?
Test Your Evolutionary Storytelling Skills
Ever notice that some older people sleep less and sometimes more fitfully than younger people? Sure you did.
Math, Computers, and Evolution: Robert Marks on Searches and Artificial Intelligence
Marks’s new book, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, makes an important but esoteric-sounding field accessible to the general reader.
Zombie Science: The War on Eggs
The fallibility of the scientific “consensus” is revealed in no humbler, more everyday form than chicken eggs.
Biologist Laments, “I Want Deeply for [Darwinism] to Make Sense”
In his provocative new book Purpose and Desire, J. Scott Turner tells the story about the Christmas pony.
On Functional Coherence — Another Serving of Oracle Soup
This is the fourth installment of my ongoing conversation with theistic evolutionist Hans Vodder about my book Undeniable.
Scientist: Debate on Controversial Science Is “Un-American”
To the weaponized epithets “anti-science,” “science denial,” and the rest, you can now add “un-American” as a putdown for ideas in a scientific context that you don’t like.