Tag: random variation
Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin
Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory.
Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?
Let’s try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre.
Synergies All the Way Down
Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.
An Argument from Ignorance?
Richard Dawkins, better than anyone, has publicly championed the dogma that Darwinian pathways can and must always exist for any biological system.
Richard Weikart on Racism, Darwinism, and Christianity
If living things are only the result of chance processes, does human life have any intrinsic value?