Edward Frenkel

I wrote about Frenkel in a different context recently when he participated in the expression of some dangerous reservations about Darwinian theory.

Math points to a reality beyond our physical realm, not entirely dissimilar to the way biology does.

The last day of the calendar year is a time of transition, and not least for the staff of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture.

Scientism is the project of attempting to convince people that nothing is really veiled from us. What you see is what you get: blunt, dead matter.

A colleague has pointed out to me a 2007 article in the Times that I hadn’t previously seen. The author is Smithsonian paleobiologist Douglas H. Erwin.

The professor, Ned Bowden, was writing in an official university publication, Iowa Now, and 25 of his fellow faculty members took umbrage.

That there are serious shortcomings to orthodox Darwinian theory is not a fact you’d expect to see candidly acknowledged in the Times, or even hinted at.

The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function.