Tag: plagiarism
Intelligent Design at the Frontier of Astrobiology and Biophysics
Earlier this month, Nature looked ahead at “five experiments as hard as finding the Higgs.” Two of them have relevance to the debate between naturalistic evolution and intelligent design.
Darwin Plagiarism Charge Resurfaces in Time for Alfred Russel Wallace Documentary and Debate
Wallace would break from Darwin in 1869 and develop a theory of intelligent evolution that in many ways presaged modern intelligent design theory.
Self-Plagiarism for Me, but Not for Thee: Wesley Elsberry Replies
Evolution activist and marine biologist Wesley Elsberry hypocritically charges mathematician and ID advocate Granville Sewell with “self-plagiarism” and “deliberate gaming of the [academic publication] system.” What’s hypocritical about the charge? Well, recently in the journal Synthese, Elsberry himself self-plagiarized his own prior work. I don’t care if Wesley Elsberry “plagiarizes” himself, if that’s even the right the word for reworking or repurposing your own writing for different audiences. But as I argued earlier here, it is hypocritical for Elsberry to attack Sewell for doing exactly the same thing that Elsberry himself has done. Now, in his own defense, Elsberry has replied to me. In the context of the Darwin debate, when someone closes a rebuttal by calling your arguments “an Read More ›
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: HuffPost Reviews The Myth of Junk DNA
Yes, it’s the venerable principle of Darwinian theory that says: Whatever turns out to be the case is retrospectively recognized as having been exactly what the theory predicted.
At BioLogos, Still Critiquing the Book Steve Meyer Didn’t Write
From occasionally perusing the BioLogos website, I’ve come to realize that talk about holiness and humility and love often accompanies some kind of innuendo or slur.