Month: October 2014
Surprise, Surprise! Bioluminescent Organs in Different Squid Species Suggest Convergent Genetic Evolution
Once you admit common design into your explanatory toolkit, the prospect that similar genetic mechanisms would be used in different species isn’t “surprising” at all.
Humans Display Many Behavioral and Cognitive Abilities that Offer No Apparent Survival Advantage
In recent years, biologists have tried to explain human moral, intellectual, and religious capacities in terms of Darwinian evolution.
Why Advocates of Intelligent Design Owe Atheist Neil deGrasse Tyson a "Thank You"
The Unofficial Guide to Cosmos tackles the debate between competing pictures of reality: ID versus scientific atheism. You don’t need to have seen a single episode to get the most out of it.
Natural Selection Struggles to Fix Advantageous Traits in Populations
In place of natural selection, some evolutionary biologists propose random genetic drift (neutral mutations) to explain the origin of complex biological features.
Can We Talk? Human Language as the Business End of Consciousness
Naturalism (the view that it’s material nature all the way down) hasn’t fared much better with human language than with consciousness.