Tag: Darwinism
Synergies All the Way Down
Examples of synergy cited by Peter Corning include multicellularity; sexual reproduction; emperor penguins huddling together for warmth.
Did Christianity Help or Hinder the Rise of Science?
Melissa Cain Travis explains why her new course gives special attention to the “warfare thesis,” a late-19th-century idea championed by materialists.
Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?
Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task.
Are Proponents of ID Religiously Motivated, and Does It Matter?
If Danaher wants to scrutinize the religious motives of ID proponents, we have to consider what such a line of attack would do to evolution.
Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?
An example of a now-discarded theory is that of spontaneous generation, a hypothetical process of living organisms developing from nonliving matter.