Tag: butterflies
Butterfly Surveys Find Design, Not Darwin
As an alternative to playing “force the data into a Darwinian mold,” readers may wish to take part in a butterfly survey — just for the pleasure and value of getting outdoors and witnessing these delicate champions of biological design up close.
Evolution Is a Movie Running Backward
That is what makes it so different from other phenomena in our universe, and why it demands a very different sort of explanation.
Bringing Metamorphosis to the Screen: An Interview with Jerry Harned
Jerry Harned is the Editor for Illustra Media. ENV asked him about the work that goes into a top-flight production like this.
Darwinian Psychologist David Barash Admits the Seeming Insolubility of Science’s “Hardest Problem”
“The hard problem of consciousness is so hard that I can’t even imagine what kind of empirical findings would satisfactorily solve it.”
A Mathematician Explains the Irreducible Complexity of Metamorphosis
In my 2000 Mathematical Intelligencer article “A Mathematician’s View of Evolution,” I compared the development of the genetic code of life with the development of a computer program, such as my finite element code PDE2D.