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Darwinians Cannot Agree on What Natural Selection Is

April 2, 2018

Controversies 159 years after Darwin have rendered his 'mechanism' a mystical idea, nebulous and incomprehensible. Has natural selection become the phlogiston of the 21st century?

Darwin and Evolution

Natural Selection? No – Sheer Dumb Luck

March 13, 2018

Cornell University agrees: Darwin's theory reduces to the Stuff Happens Law.

Darwin and Evolution

Unchallenged Darwinism Produces Sloppy Science

February 26, 2018

Any science needs open debate, but Darwinism is different: Big Science forbids it. Here are examples of ridiculous speculations that result. An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness (Rafi Letzter at Live Science). Your rationality is a mistake. Your ancient ancestor caught a virus, and woke up, transforming from zombie to person. This […]

Darwin and Evolution

Natural Selection Is Not Predictable

February 22, 2018

Every once in awhile, biologists argue over whether evolution is predictable. The latest flap over stick insects sticks up for predictability, but flops.

Darwin and Evolution

Father of Neo-Darwinism Condemned with Faint Praise

January 11, 2018

At a lecture meant to honor the late R. A. Fisher, father of neo-Darwinism, an evolutionist was on the spot to try to say something nice.

Cell Biology

Cell Repair Majors on Majors

January 10, 2018

When hit by damaging mutations, cells repair genes before non-coding areas. How do they know?

Darwin and Evolution

Animals Don’t Respect Darwin

January 8, 2018

Living things owe no obligation to Darwin. They will break his laws with reckless abandon.

Genetics

Mathematician and Geneticist Team Up to Correct Fisher’s Theorem

December 22, 2017

A new paper corrects errors in Fisher's Theorem, a mathematical "proof" of Darwinism. Rather than supporting evolution, the corrected theorem inverts it.

Darwin and Evolution

Abusing Darwinism to Explain Everything

December 1, 2017

Do documents evolve? Are birds that can interbreed still evolving? Darwinism becomes meaningless if everything that changes in some way is used as support for the theory.

SETI

Nuts for Aliens

November 27, 2017

Believers in space aliens, or even space bacteria, have cast all restraint to the wind. SETI today is indistinguishable from a cult, and so is its stepchild, astrobiology.