Darwin's finch Type post Author Neil Thomas Date March 7, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, history, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lamarckism, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, metaphors, Mother Nature, natural causes, natural selection, nature, On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Steve Laufmann, Steve Stewart-Williams, Thomas Malthus, transmutation, Victorians, world spirit Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage Neil Thomas March 7, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 19 Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination. Read More ›
Darioconusauricomusshell_large Type post Author Casey Luskin Date July 6, 2021 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , "God of the gaps", adaptationist, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, empirical science, evolution, Harvard University, Herbert Spencer, historical sciences, intelligent causation, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Fodor, John A. Moore, just-so stories, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, methodological naturalism, On the Origin of Species, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books, What Darwin Got Wrong, William A. Dembski, zoologists Honoring Richard Lewontin, Famed Evolutionary Biologist and Sometime Critic of His Own Field Casey Luskin July 6, 2021 Evolution, Intelligent Design 12 The quote for which Lewontin has become best known appeared in his 1997 review of a book by Carl Sagan. Read More ›