Tag: natural selection
Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?
Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier.
Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts
Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination.
Physicist Brian Miller: Two Conundrums for Strictly Materialist Views of Biology
“Nothing in nature will ever simultaneously go to both low entropy and high energy at the same time.”
Earth — The Mystery of Our Colorful Home
Certainly, there is no logical reason why life should be wedded to the transcendental value of beauty.
Meyer on “Nested Coding”: Another Successful Design Prediction
Overlapping genes, or “nested coding,” was anticipated by microbiologist Siegfried Scherer.