Tag: Richard Dawkins
Giraffe Weekend: “You Cannot Simply Stretch out the Neck”
The giraffe is one of those all-star icons of evolution, familiar from textbook covers, that falls apart on closer inspection.
Human Eye, that “Clunky Design,” to be Used to Confirm, or Disconfirm, Quantum Mechanics
It can detect a single photon. It can test the foundations of our understanding of nature. And it is also a piece of “botched” work by evolution?
Alien Octopodes and the Multiverse
It’s ABD — “Anything But Design,” as Sarah Chaffee says — that is, anything but design that might leave open the door to a source of transcendent intelligence.
Beauty as Evidence for Intelligent Design
Beauty does not come from randomness. It is beauty, not ugliness that must be explained.
The Perfect Human Body?
For English anatomist Alice Roberts, however, the human body is a “hodge-podge” of parts assembled in an “untidy” fashion “with no foresight” by evolution.