Tag: selection
Collateral Damage: Mutations Decrease Fitness in More Ways than One
If mutations are the raw material for evolution, they are like explosives with unpredictable effects.
Philosophers Want Back into Science
One might call the 20th century a “philosopher of the gaps” period, with scientists basking in the headlines and philosophy finding less and less to do.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Intelligent Design?
The problem these efforts face in the lab is exactly the problem faced by Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism in the wild.
For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table
ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea.