Tag: evolution
Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith
Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing.
Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right
The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism.
Real-World Data and the Lesson of Chloroquine Resistance
The take-home lesson is that evolution, on its best day, is an embarrassingly anemic process.
No “Hopeful Monster,” Flower Demonstrates Evolution by Subtraction
Evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, noticed something peculiar about the columbines in a region of Colorado.
How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?
Unsatisfied with circular evolutionary arguments and lazy reasoning, Michael Behe decided to pose his question to the real-world data.