Tag: Andrew McDiarmid
Intelligent Design: A Gift that Keeps on Giving, Cont.
Researchers in Scotland have shown that beavers, once considered by some as nuisances good only for their pelts, are actually great biodiversity engineers.
Intelligent Design: A Gift that Keeps on Giving
The humble dandelion’s seeds are so optimized for lift and flight time that scientists wonder about borrowing its design for parachutes.
The Modern-Day Phlogiston: Darwinism Explains Everything and Nothing
Leisola and Witt also discuss the well-documented pattern of scientists defending an existing paradigm even after fresh discoveries have turned against it.
Venus Flytrap Takes a Bite Out of Darwinism
The Venus flytrap, like all carnivorous plants, had no use for its insect-trapping function unless it also had an insect-digesting function. And vice versa.
Marcos Eberlin on Evolution’s Water-Gate Problem
There’s no conspiracy here, just life’s astonishing solution for admitting water into cells through “gates” while keeping lethal acidifying proteins out.