Tag: disease
Did COVID-19 Virus Evolve by Natural Selection?
Natural selection, if understood as undirected variation and differential reproductive success, is a destructive process.
Coronavirus, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
The measures being taken against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic owe nothing to evolutionary theory.
Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?
In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language.
Remind Me Again Why We Picked Polar Bears?
The core difficulty for some scientists who read Michael Behe’s book is also the key idea at its heart.
Biologist Nathan Lents: Beauty in Error
He has a different take on imperfection, one more optimistic than one might expect from someone who writes about what’s wrong with us.