Tag: John Maynard Smith
Déjà Vu at National Review
Some guy once wrote that there’s nothing new under the sun. He must have had political conservatives’ pro-Darwin arguments in mind.
Error Catastrophe: Manfred Eigen’s Show-Stopper Is Still Stopping the Origin-of-Life Show
We are nearing a half-century since Eigen wrote about this paradox, and it “still challenges theoretical biologists.”
You Don’t Need a Calculator to Know Some Things Just Can’t Happen
This is the seventh part of my ongoing conversation about Undeniable with theistic evolutionist Hans Vodder.
The Unmistakable Imprint of Purpose — Response to a Theistic Evolutionist
We instantly spot the fruits of fertile imaginations by spotting their characteristic functional coherence. Dragonflies. Smartphones. Nuclear power plants.
Kin Selection Goes to Kindergarten
Cynics would call this kin selection or perhaps love of candy. I’d call it genuine love.