If it weren't for his activities trying to cast fear on career-vulnerable scientists who are open to intelligent design, there might be something almost endearingly oafish about Dr. Coyne.
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Well, good for him. Unwittingly, he shares with his readers a clip that is among the many spectacular sequences in Flight: The Genius of Birds.
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The concept of rarefied design is useful shorthand for the kind of design in nature that David Hume ostensibly discredited in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
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Thank you for your nominations -- including the silly ones. The staff of Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture will be considering carefully.
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Merely stating that an animal (like the peacock with its outrageous tail) exhibits trade-offs doesn't explain how mutation and selection produced it.
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Remember, nominations will close tomorrow, January 29. I am arbitrarily setting midnight Pacific Time on Wednesday as the moment the door slams shut.
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