Tag: Michael Behe
Testing Behe’s Principle that Darwin Devolves
We looked at some papers claiming to see evolution happening in real time, to see if natural selection has actually invented a new function, or just broke an existing function.
Rutgers University Law Journal Advocates “Intelligence-Based Alternatives” to Darwinism
May a teacher let students know what evolutionary biologists had to say about their own field at the November 2016 Royal Society meeting?
Behe on Joseph Thornton’s Work: “A Big Monkey Wrench that Even I Did Not Expect”
It was interesting to see fellow University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne casually shoehorn Thornton into a Washington Post review of Darwin Devolves.
Polar Bear Seminar: On Retracting — and Not Retracting — Errors
It was Nathan Lents himself who wrote, “I’ve made mistakes, some I caught, others someone else caught. I always correct it the best I can. That’s what honest people do.”
Philosophers Want Back into Science
One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do.