Tag: Yale University
Wisdom Wednesday: Yale Polymath David Gelernter’s Farewell to Darwinism
Writes Professor Gelernter, “The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain.”
Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room
For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents.
Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking
Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan.
Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again
Darwin could never be considered the kind of anti-racist activist Graves makes him out to be.
Fossil Friday: The Devonian Nekton Revolution
Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism.