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| On Darwinism | | 2008-08-12 00:11:00 | | In this fascinating interview, UC Berkeley's Professor Johnson offers his unique insight into the philosophical basis of modern Darwinian theory and the many scientific problems which confront it. With his breadth of knowledge and keen intellect, he brings a fresh perspective to the timeless issue of origins.Darwinism is a term used for various different movements or concepts related to a greater or lesser extent to Charles Darwin's work on evolution. The meaning of Darwinism has changed over time, and depends on who is using the term.The term was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in April 1860, and was used to describe evolutionary concepts, including earlier concepts such as Malthusianism and Spencerism. In the late 19th century it came to mean the concept that natural selection was the sole mechanism of evolution, in contrast to Lamarckism, then around 1900 it was eclipsed by Mendelism until the modern evolutionary synthesis unified Darwin's and Gregor Mendel's ideas. As modern evolutio... | | By: Biosolution | | |
| | Evolutionary psychology: A bridge too far for Darwinism? | | 2007-07-09 19:38:05 | | Bill Dembski scooped me on the latest idiocy of Darwinisms idiot child, evolutionary psychology: Until very recently, it was a mystery to evolutionary psychology why men prefer women with large breasts, since the size of a womans breasts has no
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No link between cosmic rays and global warming At Wired Science Fraser Cain reports on the latest research on global warming and cosmic rays. There is no link: But T. Sloan from the University of Lancaster and A.W. Wolfendale from Durham University have looked carefully at the evidence and found it
Science Update Podcast for 6 July 2007 Listening in on your muscles. Can yoga stave off depression? Which came first: the lizard or the snake? And more. >
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| | Selling Evolution (an unwitting slam of Darwinism in the scientific journal, Nature) | | 2007-06-10 02:04:09 | | > In a review of David Sloan Wilsons book for popular audiences: Evolution for Everyone: How Darwins Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives , Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist, gives an unwitting slam of Darwinism. The review was
Mars Garden Wins at a Flower Show > > Martian garden. Image credit: ESA > Click to enlarge I just think this is the coolest thing. But then, maybe Ive gone a little crazy for gardening recently. A garden designed to simulate a future habitation on Mars won a Gold Medal at the Chelsea
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| Darwinism's Rules of Reasoning: Phillip Johnson on Pierre Grasse | | 2006-07-22 17:14:41 | | From "Darwinism's Rules of Reasoning" (Chapter 1 of "Darwinism: Science or Philosophy") by Phillip Johnson:"MY STARTING POINT is a book review that Theodosius Dobzhansky published in 1975, critiquing Pierre Grasse's The Evolution of Life.{1} Grasse, an eminent French zoologist, believed in something that he called "evolution." So did Dobzhansky, but when Dobzhansky used that term he meant neo-Darwinism, evolution propelled by random mutation and guided by natural selection. Grasse used the same term to refer to something very different, a poorly understood process of transformation in which one general category (like reptiles) gave rise to another (like mammals), guided by mysterious "internal factors" that seemed to compel many individual lines of descent to converge at a new form of life. Grasse denied emphatically that mutation and selection have the power to create new complex organs or body plans, explaining that the intra-species variation that results from DNA copying errors ... | | By: Evolution Research - Main Blog | | |
| | Darwinism Design and Purpose: A European Perspective | | 2006-03-16 02:23:46 | | Paper Title: Darwinism Design and Purpose: A European PerspectiveAuthor: Jean StauneInstitutional Affiliation: General Secretary, Université Interdiciplinare de Paris(This paper was prepared for "Science and Religion: Global Perspectives" June 4-8,2005, in Philedelphia, PA, USA , a program of the Metanexus InstituteAbstract:In the USA 'Issues in Biology and Religion' usually implies a debate between neo- Darwinians and Creationists or, more recently, the Intelligent Design movement. In Europe, however, the situation is somewhat different since no one really believes in creationism anymore and Intelligent Design is unheard of. Consequently the debate is completely different. It is a debate between evolutionists. The first debate is between 'Classical Darwinians' and scientists like Christian de Duve (Belgian Nobel Laureate for Medicine) or Simon Conway Morris (UK Paleontologist based at Cambridge) and is about the reproducibility of evolution. Presenting an alternative view from Gould for whom contingence rules supreme in the processes of evolution, de Duve and Conway Morris postulate that if you 'run' evolution again on a planet with more-or-less the same conditions as you find on Earth the result will be more-or-less the same. More specifically it will lead to intelligent beings that resemble us. They accept that there are no other forces that act on evolution than Darwinian mechanisms (random mutations and natural selection) but they show evidence that chance is channeled by the laws of nature. If you play dice for a very long time you can be sure that a very special result will certainly occur.The second debate is between classical neo-Darwinians and non-Darwinians i.e. scientists that claim that Darwinian mechanisms are not the main forces driving evolution. There are in France, Italy and England two main schools of thinking in this area. One believes that there is a goal in the process of evolution and so randomness is just apparent, not real, in the mec... | | By: Evolution Research - Main Blog | | |
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