Tag: Jerry Coyne
Chances That Life Originated Without Intelligent Design? “Zero,” Says Physicist Eric Hedin
The idea of setting a percentage to the chances of ID being true reminds me of Hedin’s fellow physicist, Nobel Prize-winner Brian Josephson.
Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan.
Trying to Disprove Free Will Shows that Materialism Doesn’t Work
The fact that nature is not predetermined in detail has been shown quite convincingly by the experimental confirmation of Bell’s theorem in quantum mechanics.
When Darwinian Evolution Became Obsolete
The theory of evolution by natural selection was unveiled to a poorly attended and generally inattentive audience at a Linnean Society meeting.
Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing
Imagine a chain hanging from the sky supporting a weight suspended in the air. Each link in the chain is a cause for the continued suspension of the links.