Tag: population genetics
The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness
Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process.
Response to Swamidass: Confusion in a Review of Theistic Evolution
It’s worth engaging him, since Swamidass is the relatively rare critic of ID who works at tackling arguments for design in a substantive fashion.
Discussion Over: On Adam and the Genome, Former BioLogos Fellow Backs Down
Dennis Venema sought to persuade his fellow Christians that genetic science had disproven the traditional idea of a “bottleneck” of two human ancestors.
Contradicting Darwinian Gradualism, Earliest Animals Show Complex Parental Behavior
Darwin himself realized that any kind of significant saltational change would imply a miracle-like intelligent intervention.
Population Genetics: What It Is and Why It Matters
Some have claimed that for humans the coalescence to one (or first coalescent) does not happen for well over a million years back in time, calling into question the idea of a single-couple human origin.