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Monarch Butterflies: A Natural Wonder in Crisis
Unfortunately, these delicate marathoners stand in jeopardy as their habitat shrinks because of human pressure.
What Is It About Butterflies that Drives Men to Doubt Darwin?
I’ve written here before about novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov, a self-described “furious” critic of Darwinian theory. An erstwhile butterfly researcher and curator at Harvard and the American Museum of Natural History, Nabokov thought that butterflies possess powers of mimicry inexplicable on Darwinian assumptions: “Natural Selection,” in the Darwinian sense, could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative aspect and imitative behavior, nor could one appeal to the theory of “the struggle for life” when a protective device was carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator’s power of appreciation. In the same tradition of butterfly-induced Darwin heresy, meet Bernard d’Abera. A kind of latter-day Audubon of lepidoptera, D’Abrera is a philosopher Read More ›
Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism
The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events.
Fossil Friday: Three Dubious New Fossil Insect Orders from Cretaceous Burmese Amber
Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet!
Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity
The setting is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines, and numberless critters, from deer to bobcats to garter snakes (I caught a cute one).