Category: Evolution
With Scopes Trial Anniversary Approaching, We Need Science, Not Just Feelings
At best, Christian commitment without a reasonable basis is only shifting sand under believers’ feet. At worst, it invites disdain.
On Human-Chimp Genetic Differences, the Critics Misstate My Arguments
Evolution defenders generally accept the new evidence showing that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different but downplay the new number.
Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See
This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to.
Critics Change the Topic: Do Human-Human Genetic Differences Matter?
One of the common yet unexpected reactions from critics to the discovery that humans and chimps are 15 percent genetically different is to change the topic.
21st-Century Darwinism’s Impossible Situation
The nasty racial implications of Darwin’s theory should not just be tastefully ignored.