Category: Science
The Eight Meanings of “Evolution”
“Though God is the grandest and most difficult of all subjects, the meaning of the word ‘evolution’ is actually a lot harder to nail down.”
Caterpillar Molting Controlled by Oxygen
The new documentary Metamorphosis shows how caterpillars shed their skin multiple times on the way to the chrysalis stage. But how do they know when to molt?
Archaean Microfossils and the Implications for Intelligent Design
News came this week reporting the discovery of ~3.4 billion year old microfossils from Archaean rocks in Western Australia.
As the Tree of Life Tumbles: Now, the “Public Goods” Hypothesis
Even as Richard Dawkins informs Rick Perry that “evolution is a fact,” many evolutionary biologists are quietly (or not so quietly) abandoning the Tree of Life hypothesis.
The Mirage of “Evolution Before Our Eyes”
Dawkins’s Ugandan elephants, Croatian lizards and Trinidadian guppies are misleading and almost certainly meaningless in the context of the evolution debate.