evolution · science

The Zookeeper GodOver at Jerry Coyne’s blog a few weeks ago, a generally positive re-posting of Francisco Ayala’s critical review of Stephen C. Meyer’s book received this familiar comment from Russell Blackford: All good stuff, I guess, but Ayala is mistaken if he thinks that God is off the hook for the predictable evils of… Continue reading

Darwin · evolution

Fellow blogger and outstanding philosopher of biology John Wilkins’ long-awaited book on the origin of the species concept is now out and Larry Arnhart has written the first review: When Darwin claimed that all species have evolved from ancestral species so that each species is adapted to a specific manner of life, he was closer… Continue reading

brain science · evolution

The Possibility of Impossible CulturesImagine Finnegan’s Wake written in an impossible language. I imagine many people who’ve tried to read it have already concluded that it was written in an impossible language. But in fact what makes the book so nerve-wracking is that it was written in syntactically recognizable English, but with a slew of… Continue reading

evolution · science education

Calling Jerry Coyne’s BluffSteve Matheson does a nice job explaining the problem with ‘theistic evolution’, and therein I think nicely shows why Coyne’s attacks on accomodationism really amount to nothing more than attacks on fellow scientists who are religious.

evolution · intelligent design

The Evolution of Protein Folding: Is a Crisis Brewing for Darwin? Historically speaking, there is a distinction to bear in mind between puzzles that prove a challenge to a scientific theory and puzzles that turn into a crisis. The Michelson-Morley experiment in the late 19th century proved to be a crisis for classical physics. So… Continue reading