Tag: Research
Praise Evolution for the Forced Marriage of Biomimetics and Materialism
If natural structures outperform our best technology, what does that say about the origins of those structures in the first place?
A. L. Hughes’s New Non-Darwinian Mechanism of Adaption Was Discovered and Published in Detail by an ID Geneticist 25 Years Ago
As a geneticist, I have been “preaching” exactly this non-Darwinian kind of evolution and speciation since 1986.
A Modest Comeback for Lamarck, and a Reminder of the Edge of Evolution
Like the Darwinian mechanism, the Lamarckian one appears to work — insofar as it does — by knocking things out, not building them up.
Maligning Phil Johnson, with Lots of Rhetoric but Little Substance
Johnson has now come in for criticism from mathematician Jeffrey Shallit and biochemist Larry Moran.
Science Is Not a “Brooding Omnipresence in the Sky”
For a group of people who often bristle at the hint of a supernatural explanation for some phenomenon, scientists are prone to attribute to “science” powers that can only be described as supernatural.