Tag: Michael Shermer
“We Designed Something in a Lab, Therefore Unguided Evolution Is True”
If you follow science news, that could be the headline on a story from the research world at least once a month.
Hyper-evolutionism, Scientism, and the Mythical Wallace of Michael Shermer
Shermer’s term “Intelligent Design creationism” signals his own misjudgment in the matter, namely, that ID is creationism.
More Darwinian Degradation: Much Ado about Yeast
The authors of a recent paper discuss their results in terms of the origin of multicellularity on earth.
Resolved: If He Were Alive Today, Alfred Russel Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate
No religious believer, evolutionary theory’s co-discoverer came to argue in terms remarkably similar to arguments made today by intelligent-design theorists. Or did he?
Does Donald Prothero Know Intelligent Design Arguments Better than Steve Meyer?
You can often tell who won a debate by the plausibility of an account. In that regard, Donald Prothero made many dubious claims about his debate yesterday with Michael Shermer against Steve Meyer and Richard Sternberg. Let’s hone in on a couple short comments. Prothero writes: “I know I caught [Meyer] off-guard, since I have degrees in both biology and geology, and know most of their arguments better than they do.” Prothero later felt it was appropriate to boast about his following question: “I asked Meyer if he needed the ‘Designer’ to make every glop of mud.” Of course anyone with a cursory knowledge of ID would be aware that ID fully allows for the action of natural processes, and Read More ›