Tag: evolution
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.
Survey Artificially Inflates the Percentage of Americans who “Accept Evolution”
Whether their question was chosen intentionally to inflate the degree of support for “evolution,” I cannot say.
The Return of Teleology to Biology
Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought.