Tag: Darwin’s Finches
Remembering a Colleague, Mentor, and Friend: Jonathan Wells
To get ready for a research stint he shaved his beard and used hydrogen peroxide to dye his hair bleach blond to avoid being recognized.
Predictions for the Guppy from the Engineering/Design Model
An engineering model would predict that guppies are designed with operational parameters for different traits, which are set by overarching design logic.
Galápagos Finches — Some Contradictions Solved
The authors offer a selectionist explanation, which is nevertheless uncertain. Note the repeated use of the subjunctive.
Galápagos Finches — A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?
They are not, per the National Academy of Sciences, a “particularly convincing example for speciation.”
Judge Michael Behe’s Case for Intelligent Design Yourself
“Darwin’s mechanism is dominated by ‘Poison-Pill’ mutations: positively-selected, loss-of-function mutation.” It “squanders genetic information for short-term gain.”