Tag: evolutionary biology
Physicist Explains: Why Scientists Play It Safe
On evolution and other subjects, this promotes a stale conservatism, well suited to defending orthodoxies.
Existential Implications of the Miller-Urey Experiment
Words, even meaningless words, have the power to create their own virtual realities in our minds.
Why Are Science Reporters So Credulous?
Most journalists who write about evolution appear to have made their choice to be flacks and toadies for the godlike biologists.
Eugenie Scott Gets Intelligent Design Backwards
This punctuated, even saltational increase in hominid skull sizes over time continues to be recognized in the literature.
Forbidden Question: Common Descent or Common Design?
Think of cars. A Tesla and a Cadillac share many features — but of course, none of that means that Teslas blindly evolved from Cadillacs, or vice versa.