Category: Science
Denton’s “Puzzle of Perfection,” Then and Now
The flip side of Darwin’s proposal of natural selection as a designer substitute is that “things look designed — because they are designed.”
Freeing Captured Orca Could Be Cruel
I understand the motive, but this could be a case of ideology trumping actual animal welfare. And I can’t help thinking of the Little Prince’s fox.
Michael Behe on Why Lenski’s Experiments Show Devolution, Not Evolution
Biochemist Michael Behe reviews the well-known Long Term Evolution Experiment at Michigan State.
Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology
Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia.
Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)
Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?