Category: Science
Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic
Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.”
Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin
Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory.
The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down
The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale.
How Brains Use Data Compression to Get Things Right
A recent experiment with mice showed data compression at work when the mice were making decisions about how to get a reward.
Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?
Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors.