Tag: Larry Moran
Larry Moran Defends “Junk DNA”
Neither Larry Moran nor PZ Myers has offered us positive reason to think that the preponderance of our genome is “junk.”
A Modest Comeback for Lamarck, and a Reminder of the Edge of Evolution
Like the Darwinian mechanism, the Lamarckian one appears to work — insofar as it does — by knocking things out, not building them up.
Maligning Phil Johnson, with Lots of Rhetoric but Little Substance
Johnson has now come in for criticism from mathematician Jeffrey Shallit and biochemist Larry Moran.
Why the “Onion Test” Fails as an Argument for “Junk DNA”
The so-called onion test, or indeed the “C-value enigma,” is predicated on unsupportable assumptions about the physiological effects of — and/or requirements for — larger genomes, many of which are contradicted by the scientific evidence.
Can Darwinists Condemn Hitler and Remain Consistent with Their Darwinism?
Applying Darwinian insights to morality is not distorting the theory at all (as it would be for someone to draw moral implications from relativity theory). Rather, it is explicitly part and parcel of Darwin’s own theory of human evolution.