The David Coppedge case stands as an egregious instance of intolerance toward scientific dissent, so much so that it merits your attention and action, for Caltech runs JPL under contract with NASA, a government agency, and is thus indirectly accountable to the electorate, by which I mean you, dear reader.
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"No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambigious evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation. Then how do new species come into being? How do cauliflowers descend from tiny, wild Mediterranean cabbagelike plants, or pigs from wild boars?"
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Johnson's work showed that there are credible criticisms of Darwinian evolution that come from a strictly scientific standpoint rather than a religious one.
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Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland cites Prairie Voles to illustrate how chemical processes inform morality. Prairie Voles with a greater number of oxytocin receptors were monogamous while those with fewer such receptors were not.
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It is more than a passing irony that the very book -- the Origin of Species -- widely supposed to have eliminated "the supernatural" from biology, in fact keeps theology and the supernatural alive by employing theological assumptions in its key arguments.
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