Category: Evolution
How to Discuss Intelligent Design with Friends
There is so much misinformation about the theory of ID that many well-intended people reject not the actual theory but a silly caricature, a straw man.
Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Irreducible Complexity
The first exhibit is Lenski’s long-term evolution experiment, in which, after some 33,000 generations, bacterial cells evolved the ability to grow on citrate.
Information and Life’s Origin — A Retrospective View
Unguided natural processes, according to the generalized Second Law, cannot systematically increase the information content of a closed system over time.
Replacing Chemistry with Purpose
The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions.
Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?
Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point.