Meyer, Matheson and Hunt at Biola
Arthur Hunt and Steve Matheson got a chance on Friday to question Stephen Meyer on some of the points in his book Signature in the Cell. Hunt’s post on the experience is here. Steve’s will be online soon.
Category: evolution
John C. Avise has a new paper, basically summarizing the more detailed points of his book, Inside the Human Genome, that will no doubt be keeping some of the folks in Seattle busy. I’ve been in contact with Avise, hoping to do a review and interview about it, for this blog if not another journal.
Coyne v. Futuyma
Larry Moran thinks Jerry Coyne stepped in it. Again. I hope this was just an attempt to (over-)simplify evolution for the readers of The Nation. In that case it might be (just) excusable. But I can’t wait until the creationists get a hold of this review. They’ll be delighted to learn that, according to Jerry… Continue reading Coyne v. Futuyma
I’m reading the Fodor/Piatelli-Palmarini book now, but John Wilkins is not impressed. Jerry Fodor is a smart guy in his field, but if this is his argument, it is childish. This, which is called “referential opacity” in philosophy (“You know your father. You do not know the Masked Man. Therefore the masked man is not… Continue reading
Steve Matheson pretty much nails the problem with Stephen Meyer (and the rest of the Discovery Institute fellows.) Now, if you’re not a biologist, you might think the error is trivial, purely semantic, a typing glitch induced by the proximity of the word ‘virulent.’ And that last part is probably right. But this biologist finds… Continue reading