I had a conversation with a guy who explains why he rejects Common Descent:
“Where I’m not buying evolution in large scale, again goes back to the collection (or lack) of “transitionals” to prove this happened on a grander scale. All need to be in place for the large scale to have existed.
It’s one thing to make claims on microorganisms (and I can see it justified). It’s a far greater stretch to make the other areas fit. Read more »
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HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA – NASA has announced their choice of evolutionary biologist, Dr Richard Dawkins to head the team that will be studying and analysing the UFO that landed intact in the Arizona desert six months ago.
Why Professor Dawkins? His research program came Read more »
Alexander Tsiaras is an artist and technologist. His work explores the unseen human body, developing visualization software that enables him to “paint” the human anatomy:
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“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber.
“Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.”
-Raymond Thornton Chandler, writer, 1888-1959
The first book to explain how evolution actually works has finally been written.
What most people think they know about evolution is 30 to 70 years out of date. The most popular books (even recent ones by very famous authors) make it sound as though the last five decades of scientific research never happened.
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For 25 years Richard Morgan was a card-carrying atheist and flaming Richard Dawkins fan. Born in the UK, living in France, he came to Chicago to tell this special story. Read more »
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I’ve been corresponding with a professional scientist about randomness in biology. I told him that the Neo-Darwinian paradigm of “random mutation” is dead, and most people just haven’t gotten the memo yet.
He asked me to offer citations from the literature showing that evolution is non-random. This is what I sent him: Read more »
James A. Shapiro is a leading advocate of “A Third Way” – an alternative solution to the gridlocked Creationism vs. Darwinism debate.
In this video, he defines a half dozen major mechanisms of biological evolution. He also discusses hot new questions raised by 21st century research: Read more »
Meet my very special guest, Mr. Richard Morgan. For 25 years he was a card-carrying atheist and flaming Richard Dawkins fan. Born in the UK, living in France, he came to Chicago for this event. Read more »
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Perry Marshall’s Biological Evolution talk at Alcatel-Lucent
Recorded live at Lucent’s Corporate Engineering Center
Naperville Illinois, April 14 2011
This is my 3rd biology talk at Lucent (Parts 1&2 here). Read more »
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