Evolution

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Jacob Bronowski

The New York Times dedicated their whole science section to evolution today. Read on.>>

Intelligent Design, Found Dead By It's Own Scientist

Professor Micheal Behe is held up by Creationists and evangelicals as one of their top scientists. In his latest and hopefully his last book, The Edge of Evolution, he admits evolution to be true. Jerry Coyne has the scoop.

The Edge of Evolution is not an advance or a refinement of the theory of intelligent design, but a retreat from its original claims--an act of desperation designed to maintain credibility in a world of scientific progress. But it is all for nothing, because Behe's new theory remains the same old mixture of dead science and thinly disguised theology. There is no evidence for his main claim of non-random mutation, and scientists have plenty of evidence against it. His arguments against the Darwinian evolution of complex organisms are flawed and misleading. And there is not a shred of evidence supporting his claim that the goal of evolution is intelligent life. In contrast to the feast of evidence that nourishes evolutionary theory, Behe gives us an empty plate. The rest, free registration required>>> Or here for no registration>>>

Promiscuous Teleology

Just go read this.

From the comments:

Is our thinking brain part of evolution? The question should be: How come human are capable of reasoning and understanding complex ideas? If a (relatively) few can, what prevents the multitude from doing so too?

Climate Myths

Getting the major claims about the global climate all together in one place is hard to do in a sound bite world. Michael Le Page, however has done a good job of it with an article in New Scientist debunking 26 mythes about global warming. Go There and sin no more.>>