Category: Science
With a Startling Candor, Oxford Scientist Admits a Gaping Hole in Evolutionary Theory
This just in: A rather basic question fundamental to any evolutionary account of life’s development — how “genotypes generate phenotypes,” in other words how genes build an individual creature — remains totally obscure to science.
As Alan Dershowitz and the New Film Alleged Remind Us, at the Heart of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial Was a Very Scary Book
“The highest type of all, the Caucasians, [are] represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.”
Butterfly Surveys Find Design, Not Darwin
As an alternative to playing “force the data into a Darwinian mold,” readers may wish to take part in a butterfly survey — just for the pleasure and value of getting outdoors and witnessing these delicate champions of biological design up close.
Evolution Is a Movie Running Backward
That is what makes it so different from other phenomena in our universe, and why it demands a very different sort of explanation.
Alfred Russel Wallace 98 Years Later
What would surprise Wallace the most were he to be transported to this world 98 years later? At least seven things come to mind.