Tag: just-so stories
Evolution’s Circular Web of Self-Referencing Literature
The formula goes like this: 1. Evolution is true. 2. Here’s how it must have happened. 3. Look, yet more proof of evolution.
There Is No Settled “Theory of Evolution”
What is evolution? In other words, what is core to the theory — and not forfeitable? It’s naturalism. Period.
Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?
Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness.
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.
Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design
The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking?