Tag: natural selection
Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error.
Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty
Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals.
Evolution’s Demigods: Reviewing the Tour vs. Cronin Debate
Says Brian Miller, “What a lot of origin-of-life people do is talk about natural selection as a demigod with creative agency.”
Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale
Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further.
Convergent Evolution: An Argument That Comes at a Price
Rope Kojonen sees convergence as evidence that laws of form “play a significant role” in helping evolutionary processes cluster around similar solutions.