Category: Science
Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous
Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory.
Stephen Meyer: How Misunderstood Science Drives Religious Disbelief
What a shame that the scientific mainstream has done such a poor job of communicating its own discoveries to the public.
If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?
We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds).
Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”
When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura.
On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts
The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence.