Tag: Wikipedia
An Ancient Greek Witness to Secularism as a Moral Corrosive
Jerry Coyne can always be counted on for a cartoonish view on modern monotheist religions — and so too on ancient polytheist ones.
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Anatomy
The argument from evolutionary developmental biology and embryonic development is probably one of the stronger for common descent. But I’m not convinced.
(Not) Making the Grade: An Evaluation of 22 Recent Biology Textbooks and Their Use of Selected Icons of Evolution
Unfortunately, as this review has made clear, biology textbooks have a long way to go. Parents, students and educators who seek accuracy and objectivity in evolution-education will have to continue to be a “royal pain in the fanny” of textbook publishers.
Rebel with a Nobel Prize: The Lesson of Daniel Shechtman
Are quasicrystals an example of information arising from chemistry? What can we learn from Dr. Shechtman’s example?
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
It is important, in evaluating these arguments, that one consider all the evidence: not just the evidence that is consistent. It seems to me that when this is done, the arguments for common descent — certainly in its universal sense — are, at best, inconclusive.