Tag: podcast
Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design
What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors?
Animal Algorithms: Desert Ants and Honey Bees
Eric Cassell argues that these innate skills point to algorithms programmed into the ant’s brain and genome.
Listen: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
How did Charles Darwin react to Wallace’s argument for design? Historian Michael Flannery joins Tom Woodward to explain.
Rabbi Moshe Averick Takes on Stephen Hawking’s Nonsense of a High Order
Averick describes the work as “superficial,” “convenient,” and marked by “a glaring lack of profundity.”
Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present
If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories.