I know it’s only Monday, but Jason Rosenhouse gets Quote of the Week: If you ask a theistic evolutionist where eyes came from, he will reply that eyes evolved gradually by natural selection, just as scientists say. If you ask him what scientists should be doing differently in their professional lives he will reply that… Continue reading Quote of the Week
My two posts on genomics and the challenges to traditional theology, here and here.
I agree with PZ Myers: I’m very pleased to see that Greg Bear’s Darwin’s Radio gets mentioned for its bad biology. That one has annoyed me for years: Bear does a very good job of throwing around the jargon of molecular genetics and gives the impression of being sciencey and modern, but it’s terrible, a… Continue reading Evolution in Science Fiction
Larry Moran at Sandwalk: “The writings of people like Michael Ruse and Dan Dennett should convince most other philosophers to back off before they discredit the entire discipline of philosophy.”
Larry Moran had a chance to meet Michael Lynch at the recent 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Lyons, France. He gave a talk on Evolution of Mutation Rates, a topic many of us treat with a large degree of skepticism—until we’re confronted by Michael Lynch. He makes a… Continue reading “So, there were these two Irish biologists…”
