We are free to accept ad hoc evo psych explanations if we wish. Like astrology and palm reading, they make good conversation pieces. Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
The Tragedy of Francis Collins’s Model for Science-Faith Integration
The depiction of Francis Collins as someone who has developed a good model for integrating faith and science is in many respects a tragic myth. Source Read More Evolution News
Listen: Scale-to-Feather Evolution Doesn’t Fly
Giberson and Collins point to the feather as a prime example of a novel feature arising via blind evolution. Source Read More Evolution News
Critics Respond to Stephen Meyer’s New Book (Without Mentioning Him by Name)
The critics, including Ethan Siegel, appear to see Meyer much like Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. Source Read More Evolution News
Studies on Stickleback Fish Further Validate Engineering Models for Adaptation
Cichlid and stickleback fish are two of the most iconic examples of adaption that biologists present as evidence for the plausibility of evolutionary processes. Source Read More Evolution News
Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3
The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe. Source Read More Evolution News
Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis?
Biologist Jonathan Wells contends that modern evolutionary theory is a current instance of a dominant paradigm in crisis. Source Read More Evolution News
Studies on Cichlid Fish Demonstrate the Predictive Power of Engineering Models for Adaptation
Cichlid variation do not primarily originate from random mutations but from engineered systems. Source Read More Evolution News
Melissa Cain Travis: Explaining the Uncanny “Cosmic Resonance” of Mathematics
Travis considers the history of Western thinking from Pythagoras and the pre-Socratic philosophers to Philo of Alexandria and onward. Source Read More Evolution News
Francis Collins: A Methodological Materialist When He Feels Like It
Imagine a boy who tells a girl he could climb to Jupiter because a natural ladder stretches from our planet to it. Source Read More Evolution News