Category: Evolution
Here’s a Bubble That’s Ready to Burst: Oxygen as an Explanation for the Cambrian Explosion
The sheer number of new papers attributing the rise of Cambrian animals to oxygen is weird. Could it be chance that these are all coming out months after the release of Darwin’s Doubt?
Question for a Censor: Should a Teacher Be Punished for Telling Students What the New York Times Said About Evolution in 1980?
Censors like Zack Kopplin oppose legislation like that, claiming they are protecting students from being indoctrinated in “creationism.”
Can You Mix Engineering and Natural Selection?
Oil and water don’t mix, and neither do engineering principles and natural selection.
Here’s What the NY Times Was Saying About Evolution in 1980
Sharing with students this type of mainstream scientific criticism of Darwinian theory is precisely the kind of speech that academic freedom laws seek to protect.
Welcome to “RNA World,” the Five-Star Hotel of Origin-of-Life Theories
Yes, RNA theorists admit, there are difficulties. The very same people who called RNA world “the molecular biologist’s dream” also called it “the prebiotic chemist’s nightmare.”