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Modern Synthesis

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Photo: Royal Society, entrance, by Tom Morris (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darrel Falk Downplays the Ramifications of the 2016 Royal Society Meeting

The meeting exposed the reality, hidden from the public, that leading evolutionary theorists recognize that natural selection has no real creative power. Read More ›
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Image: Alfred Russel Wallace, by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Biology’s “Best-Kept Secret” — Alfred Wallace’s Classic Is Out Now in a New Edition

On the subject of evolution, the scientific “consensus” depends on maintaining the our forgetfulness of Charles Darwin’s great partner, rival, and challenger. Read More ›
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Reeves: Natural Selection, Explanatory Deficits, and Bunnies (Dark and Light)

The story includes the neo-Darwinian modern synthesis and the extended evolutionary synthesis, culminating in a 2016 meeting of the Royal Society. Read More ›
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Science Education and the Growth Mindset

Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›
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Photo: “The course which the wind blows,” by Dawid Zawiła via Unsplash.

PLOS Genetics Asks: “What Is a Mutation?”

What if there is genuine directionality in mutation? An important paper addresses the subject. Read More ›
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Lysenkoism
Photo: Lysenko speaks, Stalin listens, via Wikicommons.

Darwinian Lysenkoism in America

As Lysenkoism enjoys a revival in Russia, it thrives here too. Read More ›
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Image: Human eye, by FelixMittermeier, via Pixabay.

Design (But Not Design) Is the New Unifying Principle of Biology

The human eye is for seeing, whether or not it has any effect on genetics. However, this common-sense view has a problem. Read More ›
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Teleonomy
Photo: Leatherback turtles hatching, by Elise Peterson (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Teleonomy and Evolution

Does a turtle swim ashore and lay eggs, or to lay eggs? Read More ›
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Adult male polar bear standing on a rocky ledge in Svalbard
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Paul Nelson on Intelligent Design and the Royal Society’s “White Bear Problem”

Andrew McDiarmid debriefed the Discovery Institute philosopher of biology on last week's events in London. Read More ›
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More Reports from Confidential Informants at the Royal Society

ID sympathizers at the meeting "wonder whether we should all have some kind of signal...rub the left nostril twice perhaps?" Read More ›

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