Category: Life Sciences
When Enzymes Don’t Lie
New research published in Bio-Complexity calls into question some fundamental assumptions of neo-Darwinian theory and enzyme evolution.
Richard Lenski, “Evolvability,” and Tortuous Darwinian Pathways
The more that is learned about Darwin’s mechanism at the molecular level, the more ineffectual it is seen to be.
When Theory and Experiment Collide
Biologic Institute’s Doug Axe explains a new paper just published in BIO-Complexity.
PZ Myers, the Baldwin Effect, “Wolpert abuse,” and Quote-Mining
If you accuse someone of quote-mining, you actually have to read the source that supposedly was mined, to understand the context.
Does Life Use a Non-Random Set of Amino Acids?
If chance and necessity are seemingly inadequate, either on their own or in co-operation, what about the causal powers of agent causality? If, in every other realm of experience, such features are routinely attributed to intelligent causes, and we have seen no reason to think that this intuition is mistaken, are we not justified in positing and inferring that these systems we are finding in biology also originated at the will of a purposive conscious agent?