Category: Evolution
Hox Genes to the Rescue?
Hox gene clusters are regulatory elements that switch on genes downstream in embryological development. When you swap one cluster with another, what happens? Evolution?
Jerry Coyne and Clarence Darrow on Free Will
The deterministic denial of free will leads not to utopia but to Dachau.
Meet the “Unknown Scientist”
I can’t help but compare this Unknown Scientist to the “Unknown Comic” from the 1980s. I picture “Smildon,” bag over his head, reciting his “scrupulously fair” review of Darwin’s Doubt.
In National Review, John Farrell’s Predictable and Misleading Review of Darwin’s Doubt
Instead of addressing, or even accurately representing, Meyer’s main argument for intelligent design, Farrell devotes a significant portion of his review to criticizing the book for the alleged misuse of an ellipsis.
On Darwin’s Doubt, Still Waiting to Hear from Big Shots in the Darwin Brigade
Listening to Stephen Meyer on the Michael Medved Show today, I was struck by something.