The prince’s criticism of evolutionary theory did cause quite a stir in the national press in the UK. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Category: Science
Framing a Finely Tuned Response to a Chorus of Critical “Carrollers”
Using Sean Carroll’s criticisms of the fine-tuning argument as a general guide, I propose to address objections to that argument, Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Platonic Minds: How Stuart Burgess’s Ultimate Engineering Challenges Maverick Biologist Michael Levin
Levin faces a measure problem analogous to that in cosmology, resulting from the optimality of biological designs. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Is Biology Intelligently Engineered? Ask an Engineer
Stuart Burgess shares his experiences navigating academic skepticism, noting that many biologists are forthcoming in expressing doubts about macroevolution. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Sophistication of Bee Decision-Making Is a Mystery, Unless Design Hypothesis Is Permitted
Distinguishing a real flower from a flower print on a woman’s dress can come into play, possibly requiring some experimental probing. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
New Study: ERVs, Once Proclaimed as Ultimate Genetic “Junk,” Are Vital for Development
Endogenous retroviruses were at one time iconic for evolution activists. The debate has progressed a lot since then. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Supposed Fusion Site Contains Expressed Genes, Likely Influences Neural Development
Human chromosomal fusion has often been cited as strong evidence supporting human-ape common ancestry. It’s not. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Axe and Luskin on the Design Intuition and Its Critics
The numbers don’t lie. So why do so many academic biologists and other scholars resist the design implications of Axe’s research? Source Read More Science and Culture Today
The Fine-Tuning Argument and Its Cultured Despisers
Carroll is a prolific physicist and cosmologist who has been a prominent popularizer of science. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering
Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Source Read More Science and Culture Today