Tag: The Compatibility of Evolution and Design (series)
Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?
Biologist Michael Denton’s structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things.
Could Finely Tuned Initial Conditions Create Biological Organisms?
Theologian Rope Kojonen, in an attempt to wed design and evolution, allows for this interpretation in his recent book.
Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology
The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible.
Co-Option and Protein Homology Don’t Explain the Evolution of the Flagellum
Rope Kojonen wants to join “design and evolution,” but only by setting aside some of the main features of the flagellum.
Want to Harmonize Evolution and Design? Consider the Bacterial Flagellum
I hope it’s clear that Kojonen’s effort to harmonize evolution and design (as he envisions it) is not so easy in the case of the bacterial flagellum.