Descent Of Man Revisited

Blinding Ourselves With Scientism Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion is weak, men mistake medicine for magic. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-cabin/blinding-ourselves-scientism_b_895502.html I once gave a talk at a research university in which I illustrated some of the ways [...]

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http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/07/spinning_fanciful_tales_about_048281.html Sex, the Queen of Problems in Evolutionary Biology Jonathan M. July 13, 2011 6:00 AM | PermalinkThe origin of sexually reproducing organisms from asexually reproducing ancestors is a profound mystery which has baffled many an evolutionary biologist. The origin and subsequent maintenance of sex and recombination is a phenomenon not easily explained by Darwinian [...]

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Why Dawkins’s case against religion creaks at every joint In this section » JAMES MACKEY http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2011/0712/1224300557484.html RITE AND REASON: A leap of faith is required to accept the argument offered by Richard Dawkins RICHARD DAWKINS sold himself very short indeed in Dublin recently. For he was mainly concerned with securing the claim that “if science [...]

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A discussion of the eonic effect, highly flawed… I will answer this at Darwiniana. EONIC THEORY A REJECTION JUD EVANS Copyright © 2008 Jud Evans. Permission granted to distribute in any medium, commercial or non-commercial, provided author attribution and copyright notices remain intact. The Eonic Effect. is often characterised as depicting the use of periodicity, [...]

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Environs Prompt Advantageous Gene Mutations as Plants Grow; Changes Passed to Progeny ScienceDaily (July 1, 2011) — If a person were to climb a towering redwood and take a sample from the top and bottom of the tree, a comparison would show that the DNA are different. Christopher A. Cullis, chair of biology at Case [...]

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