Tag: Ian Tattersall
Missed Opportunity: Passing over Scientific Problems with Human Evolution
William Lane Craig’s rhetorical strategy is essentially to accept whatever mainstream evolutionary paleoanthropology says.
Neo-Darwinism and the Big Bang of Man’s Origin
Proponents of the ruling theory tell us that we are all undoubtedly intelligent enough to fully grasp their theory, as long as we concur with it.
Why Argue with Intelligent Design? Offer Drive-By Psychotherapy Instead!
Avoiding serious discussion of design in nature (and of many other questions) fills a need.
Surprise: Lents Clarifies that Book Not Intended as Refutation of Intelligent Design!
I explained that his writing has certainly seemed like a subtweet, at the very least, directed at ID. Others appear to understand it similarly.
Latest Homo naledi Bones Are Younger than Expected
In 1982, paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall noted that it is a “myth that the evolutionary histories of living beings are essentially a matter of discovery.”