Tag: birds
Cancel Darwin? No, But Do Recognize How Evolution Boosted Racism
Cancel culture is becoming surreal. Or should I say even more surreal? “Exotic birds” are now judged to be offensive. What next?
What Do Biologists Really Know About Macroevolution?
There lives in biology a great consensus truth that evaporates upon close scrutiny.
Ten Reasons Why Birds Are Not Living Dinosaurs
Natural selection can explain “the survival of the fittest but not the arrival of the fittest.”
Michael Behe: Evolution by Devolution
An example of this devolutionary process on a showy scale? Flightless island birds, devolved from birds that could fly.
Galápagos Finches — Some Contradictions Solved
The authors offer a selectionist explanation, which is nevertheless uncertain. Note the repeated use of the subjunctive.