Tag: biology
David Gelernter: “You Need To Know Who You Are To Begin With”
Knowing who you are, where you came from, is a central purpose of education, and frankly not only in the humanities but in biology.
Dennis Venema’s Adam and the Genome: A Case Study in Cognitive Bias
In a previous article I described how scientific training can condition some scientists’ minds to resist the evidence in nature for intelligent design.
Your “Botched Body”: Bad Design or Bad Logic?
Whenever a complex system of systems works at all, it seems counterproductive to attempt a “bad design” argument.
Marching for Evidence?
Imagine yourself as a graduate student doing research in one of the natural sciences.
Ontogenetic Depth — A Problem for Evolution That’s Not Going Away
Being unable to measure ontogenetic depth is not good news for evolutionary theory.