Tag: Sean Carroll
Can’t Anybody Here Make Distinctions?
Professor Lenski revisits a series of experiments on the bacteriophage lambda begun by his lab around 2012.
Science Review Offers False Accusations about Chloroquine Resistance
In one paragraph Lents et al. twice cited sources they thought contradicted Behe, and twice suggested he ignored or dismissed contrary evidence.
Pre-Adaptation: In Evolutionary Explanations, Too Much Serendipity
“The bombardier beetle’s ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be lying around. That’s often how evolution works.”
Sean Carroll’s Preposterous Universe
The material universe must be caused, and it cannot be the cause of its own existence.
Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself
“It’s quite plausible” is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything.