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Rebel with a Nobel Prize: The Lesson of Daniel Shechtman
Of Molecules and (Straw) Men: Stephen Meyer Responds to Dennis Venema’s Review of Signature in the Cell
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
The English Translation of “New Work by Thornton’s Group”
The Receding Myth of “Junk DNA”
Darwinizing Metamorphosis with Magic
Pity the party that tries to Darwinize metamorphosis: to give an evolutionary explanation for the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly that resembles death and resurrection. One bold evolutionist has given it a try, but is his explanation an appeal to magic? In the documentary Metamorphosis from Illustra Media, biologist Richard Stringer explains why he was attracted to the study of butterflies. “That’s biology; it’s also magic.” Of course he intended the reference to magic as a metaphor, because he proceeded to investigate metamorphosis scientifically, examining the process in detail with MRI. Frank Ryan, however, writing for New Scientist, is weak on details and big on veritable magic, speaking of how metamorphosis arose or emerged with little more causation than casual Read More ›