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
Category: evolution
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
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
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
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.