Tag: Current Biology
Homeostasis Is More than Treading Water
From bacterium to brontosaur, stability in a dynamic environment requires an astonishing array of systems for sensing, signaling, and responding to change.
Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics
Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen.
Physics Envy Is Not Helping Evolutionary Biology
Biology is very different from physics. But if living things are entirely describable by atoms and forces, shouldn’t laws of physics apply to them, too?
As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades
Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it.
Dodging the Main Issue in the Cambrian Explosion
In three papers, scientists babble about irrelevant details but ignore the main question: the origin of new genetic information for new body plans and organs.