Tag: The Selfish Gene | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 2, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, epigenetics, evolution, gene expression, genes, Hox genes, mitochondrial DNA, Müller cells, On the Origin of Species, optic nerve, orphan genes, retina, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, Technion, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene}

New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

_{Emily Reeves
May 2, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotle, atomism, Cambridge University, Darwinism, David Hume, Enlightenment, evolution, Gospels, Judeo-Christian tradition, Meister Eckhart, Mendelian genetics, Middle Ages, New Testament, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Aquinas, Victorians}

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

_{Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, CSI, dependency graph, DNA, evolution, explanatory power, Forrest Mims, genomes, Human Genome Project, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, medicine, Michael Behe, mutations, Nature Reviews Genetics, nested hierarchy, predictions, Richard Dawkins, RNA, Science (journal), Scientific American, selection, software, Susumu Ohno, systematics, The Positive Case for Intelligent Design (series), The Selfish Gene, Winston Ewert}

Does Darwinian Theory Make the Same Predictions as Intelligent Design?

_{Casey Luskin
May 5, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Richard Dawkins predicted that “a large fraction” of our genomes has no function, because, “The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less." Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
April 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antony Flew, Charles Darwin, complexification, evolution, heredity, John Gray, phlogiston, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)}

The Dawkinsian Mythology

_{Neil Thomas
April 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 5, 2021

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Mathematics
Tagged
, abstract thought, C.S. Lewis, Darwinian theory, Darwinism as religion, Michael Ruse, music, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, scientific reductionism, South America, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Henry Huxley}

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

_{Michael Flannery
March 5, 2021

Arts, Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Mathematics

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Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Read More ›

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Author
Eric H. Anderson

Date
May 19, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __edited, abiogenesis, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Darwinian evolution, early Earth, factories, Harvard University, Holy Grail, Jack Szostak, Joseph Hooker, metabolic pathways, molecules, National Public Radio, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, protoplasm, random mutations, Richard Dawkins, self-replication, The Selfish Gene}

Book Excerpt: A Factory That Builds Factories That Build Factories That…

_{Eric H. Anderson
May 19, 2020

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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“How close are we to understanding the origin of life?” a radio moderator asked atheist biologist Richard Dawkins. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Sternberg

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __k-review, axioms, chromosomes, DNA, Drosophila melanogaster, Francis Crick, fruit flies, junk DNA, Leslie Orgel, nucleus, organism, phenotype, Richard Dawkins, RNA, The Selfish Gene, transposable elements, W. Ford Doolittle, Y chromosome}

The “Why” of the Fly “Y”: Reflections on “Junk” DNA

_{Richard Sternberg
April 3, 2020

Evolution, Genetics

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Let us give some thought to the Y chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster, that engaging fly which is the bond-servant of genetics. Read More ›

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Date
December 3, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, antibodies, antigens, BIO-Complexity, evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, human eye, intelligent design, Jonathan Bartlett, machines, Modern Synthesis, molecular machines, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, proteins, Richard Dawkins, teleology, The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene}

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

_{Science & Culture
December 3, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Technology

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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 ›