30Oct 2024 by Post

The Fate of Evolution Without Natural Selection

Annabel Lustig, autopilot, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Connop Thirlwall, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Industrial Revolution, Intelligent Design, Jerry Fodor, Jesus, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, neo-Darwinists, New Testament, North Wales, Old Testament, Origin of Species, Phillip Johnson, primary school, Richard Dawkins, Richard Milner, Saint Asaph, South Wales, Spanish Inquisition, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Malthus, Wales
It does not seem reasonable to accept the veridical status of evolution on the basis of what an increasing number of scientists perceive as a “dodgy dossier.” Source
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20Sep 2021 by Post

Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection Has Left a Legacy of Confusion over Biological Adaptation

adaptation, Biological Emergences, biology, brain, cave fish, Charles Darwin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Evolution, externalism, hurricane, Intelligent Design, internalism, Jerry Fodor, John Gerhard, Marc Kirschner, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Mother Nature, natural selection, New York Times Book Review, Phreatichthys andruzzii, Pocahontas, Richard Lewontin, Robert G. B. Reid, Stephen Jay Gould, sweating, What Darwin God Wrong, William Paley
Our ability to adapt to fantastically diverse circumstances did not result from the happenstance of environmental conditions. Source
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06Jul 2021 by Post

Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field

"God of the gaps", adaptationist, Billions and Billions of Demons, brachiopod shells, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darioconus auricomus, Darwinism, empirical science, Evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, sea snail, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William Dembski, zoologists
The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Source
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