Tag: science
#3 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: Cosmos Finale Takes One Last Shot at the Privileged Planet Thesis
It was a fitting end, in keeping with what we’ve seen already in the series.
#6 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: Phys.org Says the Argument for Suboptimal Design of the Eye “Is Folly”
A Darwinian paradigm assumes that biological systems are cobbled together haphazardly by natural selection over eons of unguided descent with modification.
#7 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: Ciliate Organism Undergoes “Scrambled Genome” and “Massive…Rearrangement”
A goal-directed creative process like ID can shed light on the mystery of the Oxytricha trifallax genome.
Why Bioethics Should "Fail"
Julian Savulescu represents all that I find so objectionable about the mainstream bioethics movement.
Paper Suggests Catch 22: Neo-Darwinism Faces Either a Massive Molecular Clock Misfire, or a Major Biogeographical Conundrum
Molecular clocks are notoriously unreliable indicators of a lineage’s evolutionary age.