Category: Science
Exaptation, aka Co-Option: Still a Favorite Darwinian Excuse for Complex Adaptations in Nature
“Feathers, for example, did not originate for flight but may have helped insulate or waterproof dinosaurs before helping birds fly.”
Straw Men Aside, What Is the Theory of Intelligent Design, Really?
Many critics of intelligent design have promoted false, straw-man versions of ID.
Wesley Smith on the “Anti-Science Canard”
“The point of the slur is to avoid actual discourse by branding an intellectual opponent as irrational, theocratic, and/or reactionary.”
Biologist John Mattick on Junk DNA, ENCODE, and Intelligent Design
It is not every day that we encounter such a humble attitude from a scientist who is prepared to candidly acknowledge the incompleteness in our understanding of the mechanics of evolution.
Don’t Miss the Friday Deadline to Register for Saturday Night’s Book Party for Darwin’s Doubt!
Notice the foreground of this photograph of the Seattle Art Museum, taken the night of the book party for Stephen Meyer’s last book, Signature in the Cell.