Tag: mount improbable
The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game
In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers.
How Darwinism Dodges the Iceberg
When I viewed the stranded vessel in 1992 it looked remarkably well preserved, but of course functionally it was a mere “zombie” craft.
Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor
What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes?
Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck
The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.”
Jason Rosenhouse, a Crude Darwinist
As a fellow mathematician, I would have liked to see from Rosenhouse a vigorous and insightful discussion of my ideas.