Category: Evolutionary biology
Martin Cadra’s Non-Dawinian Views on Evolution Blog
| May 11, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology |
Martin Cadra has a wonderful blog focusing on non-Darwinian views on evolution. He recently highlighted some rare publications by field biologists who provide empirical evidence that challenges the idea that Darwinian evolution is the source of butterfly mimicry. Here is an excerpt: Since Darwin’s time mimicry is presented as one of the best example of… more
Theology According to P.Z. Myers
| May 9, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under 'Junk DNA', Biology, Convergent evolution, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
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
| May 7, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under academic freedom, Biology, Constitution, Courts, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolutionary biology, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Laws, Legal, science education |
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
Getting me an Education
| April 23, 2013 | Posted by andyjones under 'Junk DNA', Darwinism, Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, science education, The Design of Life |
Larry Moran has decided to educate me about junk DNA. I appreciate the level of detail he has provided. I am not an expert in this field. I do however have a brain and, as a physicist, a vastly superior brain (I joke, sort of). I am not an IDiot, nor am I a larey… more
Why on Earth would a layman accept Darwinistic claims?
| March 18, 2013 | Posted by William J Murray under Biology, Chemistry, Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Human evolution, Mind, Origin Of Life |
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
Is Human Intellect Degenerating?
| February 19, 2013 | Posted by DLH under Complex Specified Information, Design inference, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution, Intelligent Design |
Geneticist Gerald R. Crabtree reviews evidence showing genomic mutations are degrading the 2000 to 5000 genes needed for our intellectual and emotional function: New developments in genetics, anthropology, and neurobiology predict that a very large number of genes underlie our intellectual and emotional abilities, making these abilities genetically surprisingly fragile. . . . more
EMBO workshop focuses on “phenomena that are not part of the traditional narrative of molecular evolution … ”
| August 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, News |
” … and which might signal a paradigm shift in the field.” more
They said it: Did you think we were kidding about Darwinism and morality?
| July 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary psychology, News |
Ethics is illusory inasmuch as it persuades us that it has an objective reference. This is the crux of the biological position. Once it is grasped, everything falls into place. more
Religion: Your team’s inner coach?
| April 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, News, Religion |
What you won’t ever see there is a thesis on how man evolved to be capable of a revelation of the divine. All the knives would be out against that one. more
Reflections on genuinely non-Darwinist evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis (d. 2011)
| December 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, News |
A far cry from the infantile anger of well-known Darwinists spewing hate as soon as they read her customary obit. more
Lynn Margulis stood up to the blasts of Darwin’s Awesome Big Noise machine
| November 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, News |
Who will be the next Lynn Margulis? more
One hundred and one unsolved puzzles in evolutionary development (evo-devo)?
| October 3, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, News |
Did the right mutations simply never occur? more
Retroviruses and Common Descent: And Why I Don’t Buy It
| September 15, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under 'Junk DNA', Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Genomics, Human evolution |
Those of you who have been following this blog, as well as Evolution News & Views, for some time, will be aware that I have previously discussed, across multiple articles, the phenomenon of endogenous retroviral inserts into the genomes of primates. Those familiar with the debate over origins will also be familiar with the various… more
The Value Of Probabilistic Arguments In The Debate Over Evolution
| August 15, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under 'Junk DNA', Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design |
During the course of our discussion, Pigliucci made some claims which astonished me — especially as arguments coming from a trained philosopher and world-renowned evolutionary theorist. more
In a Darwinian multiverse, Eugene Koonin could be both right and wrong an infinite number of times
| July 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Evolutionary biology, Multiverse |
In “The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics” (Genome Biology 2010, 11:209 ) Eugene V Koonin argues for endosymbiosis (organisms ingest other organisms, but the latter remain alive and provide a new function for the whole) to explain eukaryotes (complex cells, not bacteria): Phylogenomics of eukaryote supergroups suggest a highly… more
How Darwinists cope with being completely, utterly wrong
| July 6, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolutionary biology |
When suppression fails, they rewrite history. In “Darwin’s Theory of Descent with Modification, versus the Biblical Tree of Life,” Massey University molecular biologist David Penny admits that Darwin did not coin the expression “Tree of Life,” as in “Darwin’s Tree of Life”: There is a strong urban myth that Charles Darwin introduced and/or advocated a… more
No evidence that there is enough time for evolution
| May 29, 2011 | Posted by Lee Spetner under Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Natural selection |
No evidence that there is enough time for evolution[*] Lee M Spetner Redoxia Israel, Ltd. 27 Hakablan St., Jerusalem, Israel Abstract: A recent attempt was made to resolve the heretofore unaddressed issue of the estimated time for evolution, concluding that there was plenty of time. This would have been a very significant result had it… more
Remember Dollo’s Law?: Once a trait was lost through evolution, it could not be regained.
| May 16, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology |
Well, no one told the life forms about it, and frogs, snapdragons, and snakes, among other, apparently broke it with impunity, so that the “law” is in the process of being retired.* Now, a research team has, usefully, come up with estimates of the probability of mutations being reversible. From ScienceDaily (May 11, 2011): Physicists’… more
Theistic Evolutionists – How Do You See (Intelligent) Design?
| May 15, 2011 | Posted by nullasalus under Darwinism, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, theistic evolution |
Recently, I made a post regarding what I thought was an encouraging moment at Biologos, where a guest writer frankly speculated about how God could work through evolution. In the comments section, some discussion was had about just how rare or common such views are among TEs. Since I’ve already made the call for non-theists… more
An Encouraging Moment at Biologos
| May 11, 2011 | Posted by nullasalus under Design inference, Evolutionary biology |
Submitted without further comment, for now, is this quote from Part 2 of a review of Jerry Coyne’s “Why Evolution Is True”. With emphasis added: Later, he claims “Darwinism tells us that, like all species, human beings arose from the working of blind, purposeless forces over eons of time” (p. 224). There are at least… more