Category: Evolution
The Non-Battle of Orleans
The school board of Orleans, Louisiana, chose to prohibit the teaching of creationism or intelligent design in its schools.
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #1, ENCODE Project Buries “Junk DNA”
The ENCODE project results detonated what had previously been considered among the sturdiest defenses that Darwinian evolutionary theory could still fall back upon.
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #2, Thomas Nagel’s Mind & Cosmos
The defection from Darwinism of atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel, joined with his respectful evaluation of arguments for intelligent design, was huge news this year.
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #3, Ediacaran Fossils Lived on Land
If the Ediacaran fauna were not creatures of the water, what predecessors could there be for the animals of the Cambrian explosion?
Our Top 10 Evolution-Related Stories: #5, Publication of the Gorilla Genome
A whopping 30% of the gorilla genome — amounting to hundreds of millions of base pairs of gorilla DNA — contradicts the standard supposed evolutionary phylogeny of great apes and humans.