Category: Evolution
Can New Genes Emerge from Scratch?
Evolutionary theory must account for millions of new genes by chance. Here are new ideas proposed for overcoming the huge probability barrier.
Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
Dr. King accepted the animal ancestry of humans as taught by Darwinian evolution, but he spoke forcefully against the idea that we are the products of a blind material process.
BioLogos and the Search for Truth
Exactly how have the viewpoints at BioLogos been amended? Like a summer’s day in Seattle, it’s a bit cloudy — at least on the most interesting points.
Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?
I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications.
Flannery: A Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Pioneering Darwin Critic
Gutsy, bold, and precise in her scholarship, she saw Darwin’s theory as offering convenient “scientific” support for class-divided, untrammeled survival-of-the-fittest industrial competition.