Tag: adaptation
Richard Dawkins as Reluctant Darwinian
At a debate in Chicago between Dawkins and Bret Weinstein, I witnessed something that I never thought I’d see.
Darwinian Faith and Fetish
Andrew Berry, the Harvard biologist who conducts a Darwin pilgrimage each year for undergraduates to Darwin-related sites in England, responds to my recent post.
Evolution — The Board Game
Look what I stumbled on at the local community center.
Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words
If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match.
AP Texas Spins Story About Scientists Uniting Against Teaching the Controversy
The latest from the Associated Press out in Texas (via Houston Chronicle) reports that “Scientists from Texas universities on Tuesday denounced what they called supernatural and religious teaching in public school science classrooms and voiced opposition to attempts to water down evolution instruction.” We covered the Texas science standards last week, noting that Darwinists there oppose teaching the strengths and weaknesses of evolution. In the AP article, no explanation is given for their opposition to the “strengths and weaknesses” language except the unsupported claim that thoroughly examining Darwin’s theory in the classroom is something only creationists do. Actually, AP reporter Kelley Shannon is pretty sure that the whole thing is a creationist ploy to teach religion in our schools. That’s Read More ›