Category: Evolution
There’s a Gene for That…Or Is There?
A CNN headline claims, “Blame genetics for bad driving, study finds.” “Genes for,” however, are dangerous words in genetics.
From a 2011 Paper on Bacterial Flagella, Little Comfort for Darwinists
An email correspondent pointed out a paper to me, "Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors," published by the European Molecular Biology Organization.
For Overcoming Students’ Intuitions of Design, The American Biology Teacher Suggests Employing Evo-Devo
I just finished reading an article by Kostas Kampourakis and Alessandro Minelli, “Evolution Makes More Sense in the Light of Development.”
Loeb, Johanson, Wilson: Leading Scientists Bloviate on What Nobody Knows
Everyone is welcome to an opinion. But when it comes to subjects with no data, does a famous scientist’s opinion count for more than John Q. Public’s?
Don’t Try This in the Laundry Room: Materialists Seek to Outsmart Thermodynamics
Mathematician Granville Sewell has argued in these pages that evolutionary theory is at crosscurrents with the second law of thermodynamics (the law of entropy), dooming it to failure.