Tag: Stephen Jay Gould
Rare Earth: How Vital Minerals “Evolve”
It’s intriguing that life as we know it depends on a seemingly un-natural distribution of minerals.
Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike
An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions.
Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate”
When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura.
Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?
Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness.
Fact-Checking “Professor Dave”: Is the Term “Darwinism” Really Used Only by “Creationists”?
As this nonsense is so often found in Internet forums, I here provide the peer-reviewed scientific evidence to put the point to rest once and for all.