Category: Evolution
Nagel and Dembski on Life and Mind
A defense of Thomas Nagel’s appeal to unknown “teleological principles.”
Rose-Colored Glasses: Lenski, Citrate, and BioLogos
Readers of my posts know that I’m a big fan of Professor Richard Lenski, a microbiologist at Michigan State University and member of the National Academy of Sciences.
On the Miller-Urey Experiment, Wikipedia Offers a Citation Bluff
Conventional wisdom among origin-of-life theorists holds that when you try to conduct Miller-Urey type experiments with the actual gasses present on the early Earth, you don’t get amino acids.
The Second Law Argument and Specified Complexity
What is the advantage of the second law argument if it is almost equivalent to another argument already used to defend intelligent design?
A Serious Problem for Darwinists: Epistasis Decreases Chances of Beneficial Mutations
A recent paper in Nature finds that epistasis (interactions between genetic changes) is much more pervasive than previously assumed.