Tag: ecosystems
Intelligent Design in Unlovable Creatures
Between cells and humans, there are millions of “ugly duckling” species that are beautiful in their own way.
Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology
Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia.
Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals
Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too.
CELS 2021 — A Report from the Trenches
In this workshop-like setting, a group of 60 biologists, engineers, medical practitioners, and researchers from related disciplines assembled for three days.
Can Natural Reward Theory Save Natural Selection?
An evolutionist dismantles natural selection, then tries to rescue it with his own theory. It won’t work.