After my radio debate with Stephen Meyer, the Discovery Institute Volleyed back.
They took umbrage with me defining the debate in terms of “Market Share”:
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Why the heck would a bunch of muscle heads want to talk evolution? Simple: because it’s incredibly relevant to every area of our lives, including fitness.
I was just featured on the MindPump podcast, to talk about my work on Evolution 2.0, and the Evolution 2.0 Prize. If you’re not into fitness, you may never find this podcast (or my interview) on your own. So I wanted to make sure you saw it. Because even if you haven’t stepped a foot in a gym in the last decade, you’re still going to love this interview.
We covered a TON in the 1-hour discussion… Read more »
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In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door in Wittenberg, Germany and started a revolution.
Seven years ago I wrote a piece called “The Iron Curtain of 2010”. There, I predicted that Darwinism would crack in ~2013. That there would be some Berlin Wall tipping-point event.
Well, I was a little early….but definitely in the ballpark.
In 2012, The ENCODE project reported that at least 80% of our DNA has at least some discernible function, in contrast to those before who insisted that 97% is junk.
ENCODE pounded a good solid nail into Read more »
Was the Royal Society meeting a paradigm shift for evolution?
Consider the story behind the book Evolution 2.0.
When Evolution 2.0 was about to go to press, I had to hunt down some endorsements.
You know, the blurbs you put on book jackets to tell everyone how righteous and awesome your new book is.
It turned out a LOT Read more »
Stuart Norey posted this insightful comment on my blog:
I am not going to argue for or against any sort of God. But I will say this.
In the world NOW there are countless examples of evolution happening right now, backed up by sound science. There are no examples of God at work backed up by sound science.
Science can show, through DNA and fossil records etc, the previous evolutionary paths species have taken. No sensible person would argue against examples of current species evolving from others, even man.
Perry does not argue that God created man. His God is not like the God of the more traditional biblical God the ‘Christians’ etc who defend his views argue for.
Perry does not seem to deny science or evolution happening.
The biblical story is clearly wrong.
He has therefore had no choice but to retreat from biblical creation and his God appears to Read more »
“What Happened to Evolution at the Royal Society?”
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Debate – Perry Marshall vs. Stephen Meyer on the UNBELIEVABLE radio program & podcast with host Justin Brierley
Annotated transcript with additional videos, links, comments and resources by Perry Marshall at the bottom.
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Nicholas Upchurch
I was recently invited by Nicholas Upchurch to appear on his Believe! podcast. We ended up with over an hour of unusual content. Now, here’s why I called this clip “unusual.”
There are many theories, models, and hypotheses that Nicholas and I may not agree on. And some of the remote fringes of science that he aspires to traverse may be very… “fringy.” However, what unites the two of us is our shared conviction that no verifiable fact can be ignored if we want the true science to happen.
We ended up visiting many rabbit holes in this very short time span. If there was a world record for that, we’d almost certainly smash it.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
Listen to it here: Perry Marshall on Science vs. God
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Thanks to Mark D. Thompson for posting this helpful blog comment:
Richard Dawkins has been out of date since the day “Selfish Gene” hit the bookstores
This issue [re: “Memo to Dawkins & friends: Recess Is OVER”] was also debated in a Nature article in terms of niche construction:
http://www.nature.com/news/does-evolutionary-theory-need-a-rethink-1.16080
Richard Dawkins has been out of date since the day that he published the Selfish Gene. I admire his writing and his books were great enjoyment leading into my undergraduate.
However, Sewall Wright, Rupert Riedl, Conrad Waddington, and even Richard Lewontin were very skeptical. Some even published rebuttals of Dawkins in the peer-reviewed literature.
Stephen J. Gould’s writings should have been the tombstone marker on Dawkins’ thesis, but for some reason this never caught traction.
There is a grand divide between populist thinking in evolutionary biology and what is really going on in evolutionary peer-review.
Here we are with an article in 1978 on epigenetics:
Dawkins still didn’t get the memo. He put out this horrific paper:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FB%3ABIPH.0000036180.14904.96?LI=true
It was essentially a re-hash of what he has already said and he ignores the evidence. I have admired Dawkins and many of the other neo-Darwinian) players, but they need to modify their views in light of the evidence (which they claim to do).
Interestingly, Charles Darwin would be more of a modern thinker in relation to his pangenesis theory, which started genetics and is really prescient thinking on the way that RNA intermixes with the proteome. Great article!
By day, Jason Vidaurri is a mild-mannered chemical engineer of about 16 years, whose day job consists of delving into the intricacies of turning raw materials into useful, everyday products. A perfectly respectable role for a man of his education and experience.
Outside of work (and likely unbeknownst to his coworkers), Jason is the engineer of www.storyhinge.com – a podcast committed to helping others find more of their own success in all aspects of life by giving people the freedom to tell their story – with the intent that listeners might find foundational material on which to build upon their own lives.
Jason recently had me as his guest to talk about Evolution 2.0 and we immediately cut to the chase. In this episode we talk about my harrowing journey of slashing through the jungle of the creation versus evolution debate, how we spend our lives fighting random mutation, and my simple exercise of organizing the world into two halves: those with code and those without.
Here’s a few highlights guaranteed to awaken your inner geek:
Enjoy: StoryHinge – Episode 11
http://storyhinge.com/index.php/2017/01/03/perry-marshall/
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James MacAllister, curator of the Lynn Margulis archive at the University of Massachussetts Amherst. He wrote a thorough review of the London 2016 evolution conference at the Royal Society.
James MacAllister is the volunteer archivist for the Lynn Margulis archive at the University of Massachussetts-Amherst.
Jim runs envevo.org, the Environmental Evolution website. Lynn Margulis was the champion of Symbiogenesis theory.
She fought tremendous opposition from Neo-Darwinists to get the theory accepted. Today she is widely regarded as one of the greatest evolutionary biologists of all time.
I met Jim at the Royal Society evolution meeting in London, and in a very brief conversation discovered much in common. Jim runs envevo.org, the Environmental Evolution blog.
He wrote a fantastic synopsis of the Royal Society meeting. I encourage you to read his entire report. Meanwhile, some highlights:
