It was the Protestant Reformation of evolutionary biology – with Denis Noble playing the part of Martin Luther. He nailed his 95 theses to the wall in London and evolution will never be the same.

The 2016 Evolution Conference at the Royal Society was the Protestant Reformation of Evolutionary Biology. Is this the end of evolution? Or is it a fresh beginning? Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute says Intelligent Design just scored a big victory; Perry Marshall punches back with “Third Way” evolution

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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…

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Thanks to Mark D. Thompson for posting this helpful blog comment: 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niche construction: http://www.nature.com/news/does-evolutionary-theory-need-a-rethink-1.16080 Richard Dawkins has been out of date since the day that he published the Selfish Gene.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…

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…

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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…

 World-class heart researcher Denis Noble demolishes the “Selfish Gene” – With Grace and Wit Just as modern astronomy has shown us there is no definite “center of the universe” (and it is most certainly not the earth), in his book “Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity,” Oxford Professor Denis Noble shows that in…

Is evolution a “red in tooth and claw” war of survival of the fittest? Or is it cooperative? Is evolution slow and accidental? Or rapid and strategic? Enjoy this video about real-time Symbiosis by John Perry of Stated Clearly.

At the age of 6, I loved my family, my dog, my Lord Jesus, awesome flying kicks and Ankylosaurus. At the age of 6, this was considered perfectly normal and no one batted an eyelid. At the age of 12, I was told I could love four of those five things, but when it came…

Between North and South Korea there’s a “DMZ,” a De-Militarized Zone. A strip of land a couple of miles wide. A buffer between the two sides. A place where people from both sides can go… and not get shot. The DMZ has a number of buildings for peace talks between the two sides. Evolution 2.0…