Category: Biology

Darwin-doubting mathematician David Berlinski on why math IS really important

… contrary to what Darwinian evolutionary theorist E. O. Wilson thinks. more

Not only is there no scientific method, but biology does not need math – says prominent evolutionary biologist

If Wilson is right, current evolution theory has nothing to do with basic concepts like math. The popular TV talk shows will give you a much better idea of what you need to know. more

Theology According to P.Z. Myers

Over on The Panda’s Thumb blog, Darwinian apologist P.Z. Myers recently posted a pejorative laden critique of a review article by Casey Luskin. Luskin was responding to a recent New York Times article on a study purporting to show how certain genes in fish might hold an important clue on how fins turned to feet.… more

Slate.com in a Dither Over non-Repeal of LSEA

Slate.com is all upset that repeal of the Louisiana Science Education Act of 2008 was was rejected yet again in a 3-2 vote in the State Senate. 19 year old Rice University Student Zack Kopplin has been leading the charge to get this “outrage” done away with once and for all, with help from the… more

Why on Earth would a layman accept Darwinistic claims?

First, by “Darwinistic” I mean “atheistic-materialist neo-Darwinist”, which includes the view that even the origin of life can be explained by reference to chance and natural law. As Alan Fox points out, many of those here are “laymen” when it comes to evolutionary biology.  Most of us are not specifically schooled or trained in that… more

Debating Darwin and Design: A Dialogue Between Two Christians

A couple of months ago, I agreed to take part in a written debate with a good friend of mine, Francis Smallwood. Francis, like me, is a commited Christian. Unlike me though, he is also a neo-Darwinist. On his blog Musings Of A Scientific Nature he writes on many different scientific issues, although his primary… more

More math actually reduces biology papers’ impact

” … receiving 28% fewer citations overall for each additional equation per page in the main text.” more

John Davison, a peppery non-Darwinist biologist, has died.

He wasn’t a tenured bore. more

James Barham at Best Schools ‘fesses up III: Biology (like the social sciences) is guilty of massive and systematic equivocation

“Biologists are constantly basing nearly all their work on an unspoken assumption of the “usefulness” or “efficiency” or “rationality” or “intelligence” of biological systems, even if they would strenuously deny the fact. ” more

760 million year old animal found in South Africa

“a 150 million years earlier than when other animals emerged in the fossil record.” more

Latest issue of Synthese: Should scientists even try to define life?

“I conclude that scientists, philosophers, and ethicists should discard the project of defining life.” more

ID Foundations, 15(a): A Testable ID Hypothesis — Front-Loading, part A (a guest-post by Genomicus)

(Series on Front-loading continues, here) As we continue the ID Foundations series, it will be necessary to reflect on a fairly wide range of topics, more than any one person can cover. So, when the opportunity came up to put Front-Loading on the table from a knowledgeable advocate of it, Genomicus, I asked him if… more

Another biologist steps out of line …

Most biological students think that adaptive radiations and Darwinism go together, and that the mechanisms of genetic mutation and natural selection explain all the data. … However more

New biology journal to be researcher-run, not editor-run

“The top tier publications are often run by professional editors who do not work in a lab, and who do not moderate the peer-review process.” more

Researchers hope butterfly genome sequence explains migration – but their approach raises a critical question

It will be most interesting if the mechanism indeed turns out to be fundamentally the same for butterflies, birds, and turtles. What would such a finding imply? more

Vid: Yes, these ARE birds …

And you have never seen anything like it. more

Great TED Talks vid: Human life from conception to birth

Top life sciences micro photo: The rotifer, filtering water for food, like a vacuum cleaner

You can see a brick of the shelter the rotifer builds around it, ready to be added, in the winning photo. more

Ten best microscopic pictures from the life sciences 2011

Here. more

Irrational reasons for refusing to consider design …

From our moral and intellectual superiors, no less. more

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