Tag: Wikipedia
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution
When the biogeographical data does not fit with the predictions and expectations of common descent, one always has “oceanic dispersal” at the ready to serve as an ad hoc fudge factor — including the rather remarkable claim that monkeys made it across the Atlantic from Africa to South America!
A Weirdly Naked Appeal to Racism from the National Center for Science Education?
The NCSE is a group that wants to help soften up the religious community on behalf of Darwinian evolution. And this was their bright idea on how to do it? Wow.
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Paleontology
The fossil record, far from establishing Darwinian theory, only succeeds in hammering one more nail into Darwin’s coffin.
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.