Tag: natural selection
A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning
The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide.
No, Intelligent Design Doesn’t Reason by Analogy; Here’s Why
We also see machines in living systems. That’s not to say that cells or living systems on the whole are “machines,” but they do contain machines.
Irreducibly Complex, Bacterial Cell Wall Manufacture Is an Evolutionary Enigma
Evolutionary processes cannot select for some future utility that is only realized after passing through a maladaptive intermediate.
Richard Weikart on Racism, Darwinism, and Christianity
If living things are only the result of chance processes, does human life have any intrinsic value?
Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework
Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature.