Archive for Evolution

The Unexpected Relevance of the Missing Airliner to the Evolution Debate

As crystallized in my recent Facebook Status Update: So a lot of the news commentary is talking about the fact that the course diversion of the Malaysian flight seems deliberate, rather than accidental. That means the investigators have called in priests, right? I mean, from the evolution debate, I heard that looking for signs of […]

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Further Thoughts on Evolution

A month or two ago Jim Manzi dropped a link in the comments here to his dispute with Jerry Coyne on evolution. Here was Manzi’s original salvo, here’s Coyne’s response, and then Manzi answers again. They key point in all of this is that Manzi was not denying, say, that all existing life forms have […]

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