Tag: biologists
Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design
The word “reductionism” is thrown around a lot, but it can mean several different things.
Yet Another Engineering Innovation from Cuttlefish
It was never a given that when scientists looked deeper into life, they would find such exquisite designs; but they did.
With One Short Rule, Philip Ball Explains Why “Junk DNA” May Be a Placeholder for Ignorance
Here is Ball’s proposed rule for molecular biologists: “stop assuming,” he writes, “we know which parts of DNA matter and which don’t.”
In Darwin’s Bluff, Robert Shedinger Rightly Forgoes the Hagiographic Tradition
The present reader, in company with a host of agnostic biologists and cosmologists, simply finds in Darwin a complete dearth of convincing scientific evidence.
Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate
Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency.”