Tag: Darwinian theory
Using Religion to Push Evolution in Public School Biology Class — What Could Go Wrong?
A much better approach would be no religion in biology class, and more science.
Of Species and Software: What Is a Dependency Graph?
Wisnton Ewert has developed a model to explain the pattern of similarities in different organisms which mimics how computer applications inherit software from a diverse range of lower-level modules.
Alfred Russel Wallace — New Biography Is a Defeater for Arguments for Theistic Evolution
Wallace broke with Darwin and became, arguably, the founding father of modern intelligent design theory.
From Bears to Whales: A Difficult Transition
Critics laughed, and he removed it from later editions of his book, but Charles Darwin privately continued to believe that whales evolved from a “race of bears.”
Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma
Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.”