Category: Intelligent Design
Pre-Adaptation: In Evolutionary Explanations, Too Much Serendipity
“The bombardier beetle’s ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be lying around. That’s often how evolution works.”
Jonah Goldberg, William F. Buckley Jr., and Evolution
Conceding deep philosophical and scientific premises is one common reason that conservatives lose important arguments.
Is the Human Eye Really Evidence Against Intelligent Design?
Vertebrate eyes work reasonably well, Richard Dawkins conceded, but “it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer!”
Four Darwin Heretics: A Reader’s Roundup
When you read Matti Leispola’s account of his adventures with a persecuted enclave of Darwin skeptics, you’ll understand why he has a smile on his face.
Protein Folding and the Four Horsemen of the Axocalypse
A recent series of critiques, published by the online journal Sapientia, was aimed at Doug Axe’s book, Undeniable.