2+ hour, 47+ min ago   (327+ words) You can read this proposition a dozen times over and still be unable to say what it disallows in phylogenetic inference. Source You are hereby double dared to parse the sentence at the end of the indented quote further down…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (466+ words) First the Oxygen Theory, now the Feces Theory. But how much experience do we really have with feces creating new genetic information? Source Get ready because this article is going to go a little bit into the sewer. A new…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (193+ words) We have been looking at Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information. Up to now, we have been criticizing his theoretical use of information theory. Now we turn to his Chapter 4, “Experiments in Evolution,” where he draws conclusions from…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (438+ words) Given the intricacy of the molecular machinery of even the simplest cells, the lack of any observations on cell origin, except from other cells, and the lack of any apparent intermediate stages in the evolution of cells, the origin of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (281+ words) David Gelernter’s confession raised many an eyebrow when it was published in 2019, and for good reason. Source Seven years ago, Yale University professor of computer science David Gelernter wrote that he was bidding farewell to neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory. Why would…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (177+ words) To reconcile faith and science, is it enough to say God could have used evolution? Many Christians are attracted to this idea, and it is now treated as the quasi-official Catholic position. But can this view, known as theistic evolution,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (525+ words) Christoph Adami’s book, The Evolution of Biological Information, promises to explain “how evolution creates complexity, from viruses to brains.” The publisher, Princeton University Press, describes the book as covering: Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (219+ words) While Arthur models the development of technology, he refers to it as the “evolution” of technology. He chooses to model the development of technology as a process of randomly combining parts, a rather Darwinian, evolution-inspired approach. He describes it in…...

4+ week, 4+ hour ago   (288+ words) At his blog, Construction Physics, Brain Potter, drawing on work by economist Brian Arthur, draws a connection between modularity in technology and evolution, concluding: Potter is drawing an analogy between modularity in technology and the genetic recombination in sexual reproduction....

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (681+ words) The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Source Coyne, with his usual over-confident obstreperousness, insists that “Lamarck got what drove evolution completely wrong.” He argues this…...