Posts Tagged by Natural selection

Debating Darwin and Design: A Dialogue Between Two Christians

September 4, 2012 Posted by Joshua G under Biology, Complex Specified Information, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
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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

Is nature really a struggle in which natural selection is the key factor?

November 19, 2009 Posted by O'Leary under Natural selection
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British physicist David Tyler comments: In a perceptive essay, Daniel Todes focuses attention on the reactions of Russian biologists to Darwin’s writings. Many of these naturalists “were evolutionists before 1859″, so they did not dissent from common ancestry. However, their experiences of the living world were quite different from Darwin and Wallace, who drew their… more