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 »
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
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 »
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Romans is St. Paul’s grand case for Christian theology. It’s a bulwark of logic and argument. Every great theologian has written extensively on Romans. Paul’s first chapter is fighting words: Read more »
Robert Full is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley. He studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build the perfect “distributed foot” for tomorrow’s robots, based on nature’s engineering.
In this video he describes the remarkable features of insect and animal legs, and shows you a robot built based on these same principles:
Enjoy!
Perry Marshall
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Werner Gitt’s book In The Beginning Was Information [Free PDF] is superb and provided the initial inspiration for all I have done with Information Theory. I owe Werner Gitt a debt of gratitude for producing one of the most clear and profound science books I’ve ever read. Read more »
Researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States believe that they have found the purpose of the vermiform appendix, long thought to be useless.
Illustration showing make-up of the human appendix.
Physicist Richard Feynman was a notorious researcher and blazing personality in the history of science.
He’s known for his work on the atomic bomb, for creating a visual representation of subatomic particles, and pioneering work in quantum computing. Read more »
A gentleman named Johan posted this as a comment and it was so good I felt it deserved it’s own blog post:
I couldn’t find any referral to the the Craig Venter Institute’s recent achievement.
Some atheists regard it as another blow to Christianity but in my view it is another Read more »
