Darwin's God

The Scientific Approach to Evolution It’s no secret that the origins debate is highly polarized. Many people have their minds made up an...

Why Evolution is Confirmed Last time we saw that by wholeheartedly embracing and promoting Theodosius Dobzhansky’s famous phrase, “Nothin...

A Fascinating Dissonance Theodosius Dobzhansky famously wrote in 1973 that “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evoluti...

Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic There is much to agree with in Steven Novella’s article from this past week on the P-value. The la...

The Third Rail of Evolution In the spring of 2006 I gave a talk on the campus of Cornell University and afterwards was joined by then Corn...

Does Similarity Imply Common Ancestry? According to evolution the species arose as a consequence of random events, such as mutations. Yet ...

A High Degree of Regulation and Control New research is using antibodies to map out the spatio-temporal locations of 12,003 different pro...

The Need For Theory Evaluation The evolution of humans is, in many ways, similar to evolutionary theory on the whole. As Colin Barras reve...

If P Implies Q, Then Q Implies P, Right? A new paper out of Gareth Fraser’s laboratory explains that vertebrate epithelial appendages, ...

Worse Than Lightning Striking Twice Biology is full of convergence—repeated designs in distant species. Marsupials and placentals, for ins...

No Free Lunch We have seen that a new evolution book co-authored by evolutionist Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight is influenced by the m...

The “Shared Error” Argument We have seen that a new evolution book co-authored by evolutionist Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight is influ...

Deep Explanatory Power? If you want to understand evolutionary thought just read the literature. Charles Darwin accurately characterize...

I Feel Sorry For Her Child Ideas have consequences and to see the fruit of evolution we need look no further than abortion. If we were ...

The Time Has Come The nineteenth century, which brought us Charles Darwin and his modernized version of Epicureanism, is now officially in...