Tag: National Academy of Sciences
Yes, the Punctuated Equilibrium Model Was Developed to Explain the Lack of Transitional Fossils
Why would Eldredge and Gould propose such a model? Because they knew the data showed that potential transitional fossils are an extreme rarity.
Answering Another Objection to Intelligent Design: “You Can’t Prove God Exists”
Now it’s possible that physics-based arguments for design could extend the argument further than you can go within biological design.
Excerpt: A Reply to Michael Ruse
Let me tell a little story about blood clotting, Russell Doolittle, and Michael Ruse.
Galápagos Finches — A Paradigm of the Limits of Natural Selection?
They are not, per the National Academy of Sciences, a “particularly convincing example for speciation.”
Are Galápagos Finches “Evolution in Action”?
In a series of posts starting today, I offer some notes on the question of whether macroevolution is happening on the Galápagos Islands.