Tag: DNA
You Can Now Watch the Craig-Dawkins Non-Debate
How much would you pay for the pleasure of seeing Dawkins actually confront Craig live on a stage and try to answer him substantively?
Putting Human/Chimp Genome Comparisons in a Meaningful Context
Knowing that ENV’s readers include many teachers and other educators, I thought I would offer a brief teaching idea, especially for those who have their students submit papers to SafeAssign or some similar plagiarism-detection software.
A New Film, Alleged, Tells the Real Story of the Scopes Trial
Alleged stays true to the complicated story rather than, in the manner of Inherit the Wind, turning it into a Darwinian propagandist morality cartoon.
Why the “Onion Test” Fails as an Argument for “Junk DNA”
The so-called onion test, or indeed the “C-value enigma,” is predicated on unsupportable assumptions about the physiological effects of — and/or requirements for — larger genomes, many of which are contradicted by the scientific evidence.
Can Darwinists Condemn Hitler and Remain Consistent with Their Darwinism?
Applying Darwinian insights to morality is not distorting the theory at all (as it would be for someone to draw moral implications from relativity theory). Rather, it is explicitly part and parcel of Darwin’s own theory of human evolution.