Tag: natural selection
On Doing Science Versus Understanding Science
Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ashley Montagu wrote in 1947, “Race differences arise chiefly because of the differential action of natural selection on geographically separate populations.”
Berlinski, Robinson on the “Almost Unfathomable Complexity” of Living Systems, and More
The two also discuss discontinuities in the fossil record as well as Berlinski’s insistence that “any theory of natural selection must plainly meet what I have called a rule against deferred success.”
Meeting Phil Johnson at Berkeley
As a biology graduate student, I had seen first-hand some of the alleged evidence for the “fact” of common descent.
The “Three Cardinal Problems of Biology”
We still are not close to designing any self-replicating machine. That is still pure science fiction.
New PragerU Video on Evolution = Stephen Meyer at Yankee Stadium x 20
Watched by a million people this week, Meyer in these 5 minutes does a superbly lucid job of explaining why scientists who doubt the standard evolutionary story are “appropriately skeptical.”