“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Michael Behe and Cilia 3.0 … or, Irreducible Complexity Cubed
The once seemingly humble cilium is actually even more irreducibly complex than Dr. Behe suggested in his first book. Source Read More Evolution News
Stephen Meyer Tells Hank Hanegraaff About a Providential Debate — and Much More
There were a couple of striking things about the debate, where Meyer was overcome early on by a migraine brought on by the bright lights. Source Read More Evolution News
Listen: Stephen Meyer on NPR’s “Watching America”
Yes, that’s right, National Public Radio, not a place you’d normally expect to be friendly to intelligent design Source Read More Evolution News
Junk No Longer: ERVs Are “Integral” and “Important Components” of Immune Responses
It’s another example of a paper that sounds like it could have been written by a proponent of intelligent design. Source Read More Evolution News
On Evolution and Racism, Scientific American Goes to War Against the Truth
Given evolution’s racist baggage, you might think the theory’s proponents would be somewhat abashed to accuse the critics of Darwin of “white supremacy.” Source Read More Evolution News
Why Darwin Exaggerated His Health Problems
All the evidence points to Darwin as a generally healthy man with a strong, active libido, normal sexual function, and prodigious fertility. Source Read More Evolution News
New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum
This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Source Read More Evolution News
The Uses of Illness in Darwin’s Correspondence
Darwinian biographer Janet Browne notes how Darwin’s illness may have become a convenient excuse for avoiding certain activities. Source Read More Evolution News
Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Source Read More Evolution News