Tag: evolution
Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale”
Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales.
Back to School with Biology Education
Geologist Casey Luskin offers tips for when diversity doesn’t extend into the biology classroom.
Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature.
Equivocation as a Tactic in the Evolution Debate
How many Americans accept Darwin’s belief that human beings are the result of an unguided, purposeless process? This survey doesn’t come close to telling us.
Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution
Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered.