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
Category: evolution
Critical Thinking in the Classroom *I recently got acquainted with a young instructor who teaches science to seventh-graders at an evangelical school. He’s a graduate of Wheaton College and a recent convert to Catholicism. This affords him an interesting perspective on how evangelicals handle science in the classroom, in particular how the whole ‘teach the… Continue reading
Felicitous Implications
I would never describe myself as a theistic evolutionist, but John Wilkins (as always) has a thoughtful post on the implications of Darwin, God and Chance that is, as the late William F. Buckley might say, felicitous. There is a simulation program called Avida, which simulates a process of evolution by selection on “animats” or… Continue reading Felicitous Implications
Larry Moran weighs in with some thoughts on Steve Matheson’s critique of Behe’s assumptions.
Humor Break with Chris Smither. Hat tip: John Wilkins.