Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Cicero on Intelligent Design — Sound Familiar?
Yesterday was Cicero’s birthday. To celebrate, here’s my favorite quote from the Roman philosopher. Source Read More Evolution News
Trapdoors in the Fitness Landscape: Scientists Revive Worries About an Evolutionary Metaphor
What if the structure of the landscape is like a block of Swiss cheese, flat and riddled with holes? Source Read More Evolution News
Could Laws of Nature Give Rise to Platonic Forms?
Biologist Michael Denton’s structuralist view says that underlying structural principles govern the form of living things. Source Read More Evolution News
Harvard President Is Out Thanks to Design Filter
William Dembski explains in an excellent new podcast interview with Christopher Sernaque. Source Read More Evolution News
Francis Collins Disappointed as a Public-Health Leader
Many Christians looked to Collins, an Evangelical Christian who was also a brilliant scientist, to bring a greater sense of morality to the research pursuit. Source Read More Evolution News
Casey Luskin On Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift”
Intelligent design theorists have long argued against the idea that non-protein coding DNA is useless evolutionary junk. Source Read More Evolution News
Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology
Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Source Read More Evolution News
Could Finely Tuned Initial Conditions Create Biological Organisms?
Theologian Rope Kojonen, in an attempt to wed design and evolution, allows for this interpretation in his recent book. Source Read More Evolution News
Physics and Chemistry Could Not Give Rise to Biology
The laws of nature provide stable conditions and physical boundaries within which biological outcomes are possible. Source Read More Evolution News