Darwin's God

The Nature of Evidence Charles Darwin would approve of this video showing evidence for evolution found in the human body.

An Unsolved Puzzle While much has been said about the link between evolution and abortion, and how the former sanctions the latter, little...

Don’t Know What They’re Doing

A Durable Myth Science writer Katherine Ellen Foley has another article on anthropogenic global warming, or AGW, in Quartz this past week...

We can only say that so it is Why do ostriches have four, rather than two, kneecaps? A new study has found several possible biomechanical...

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...