Two seemingly unconnected events: (i) I am writing about Emperor Penguins, and (ii) I am listening to an interview on the radio about applying quantum mechanics to evolutionary biology. Read More...Tags:Quantum mechanics, Emperor penguins, Evolution, Natural Selection, Michael Schumacher, Juan Manual Fangio, Creationist, God
I’ve just arrived back from the Antarctic. A magnificent place of contradictions. While the perception is of a white continent, it is the subtle variations of light and colour that contribute so much to it’s beauty; covered in frozen water it is one of the driest places on Earth; and then, there are the animals. Read More...Tags:Charles Darwin, Antarctica, Natural Selection, Creationist, Adaptation
29 December 2005 Filed in:
Darwin NewsThe ruling by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones that the the Dover Area School Board in Pennsylvania cannot teach Intelligent Design as part of the Science curriculum strikes a blow for logic. That’s not to say that Darwinism and Creationism (or any other religious view) should not go head to head (as they are in Looking for Darwin): but there is a time and a place and the science curriculum is not one of them. The judge got it right when he concluded that so-called Intelligent Design is nothing more than religion dressed up as science. Read More...Tags:Intelligent design, Judge John E. Jones, Pennsylvania, Science, Darwinism, Creationist, Creationism
