Tag: Darwin on Trial
Discovering Alfred Russel Wallace
For those who wish to caricature the theory of intelligent design, Wallace becomes a very inconvenient historical figure.
Not in the Genes: Embryonic Electric Fields
Although DNA is involved in specifying the amino acid sequences of proteins, other sources of information are needed to specify the three-dimensional structure of the embryo.
How Good is Phil Johnson’s Biology?
An unexpected defender of Johnson emerged. He was University of Chicago paleontologist David Raup.
A Modest Comeback for Lamarck, and a Reminder of the Edge of Evolution
Like the Darwinian mechanism, the Lamarckian one appears to work — insofar as it does — by knocking things out, not building them up.
Maligning Phil Johnson, with Lots of Rhetoric but Little Substance
Johnson has now come in for criticism from mathematician Jeffrey Shallit and biochemist Larry Moran.