Tag: natural selection
#3 of Our Top Stories of 2019: PragerU Video on Evolution = Stephen Meyer at Yankee Stadium x 20
Meyer in these 5 minutes does a superbly lucid job of explaining why scientists who doubt the standard evolutionary story are “appropriately skeptical.”
Historian and Nature’s Prophet Author Michael Flannery Reviews the Reviewers
A.R. Wallace was the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection along with Charles Darwin, but in 1869 he broke with Darwin.
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.