Monthly Archives: February 2009
Thomism and Intelligent Design
I have always had a sneaking admiration for neo-Thomistic accounts of creation and evolution, because they tend to think of creation as the actualisation of the real world with no limitations on natural law within the created universe. Now read … Continue reading
Filed under Religion
More on the UN Resolution
Here at Skepoet.
Filed under Censorship, Politics, Race and politics, Religion
Myth 3: Darwin was a Lamarckian
Myth 3: Darwin was actually a Lamarckian This one is subtle. It implies that Darwin, because he lacked a Mendelian account of heredity, was not actually a “true” (or Neo-)Darwinian. The error depends on the extent of what is named … Continue reading
Truisms 6
Truism 6: Apart from physical kinds like basic particles, everything is in flux Scholia: If we know things, we know them as temporary objects. An “object” is thus something within which change doesn’t trigger a change of equivalence class. We … Continue reading
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Myths 2: The origin of species
So today, which is in the antipodes (we being so far ahead of you northern western types) the 200th birthday of an obscure British naturalist gentleman, we address this myth: Myth 2: Darwin did not explain the origin of species … Continue reading
Darwin [quotes] wrong
This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest, but it turns out that a number of widely quoted sayings of Darwin are, in fact, invented. I would not be surprised to find out they are taken from reviews and other authors’ … Continue reading
Natural selection fails with Man – W. R. Greg
In the Descent of Man, Darwin cites a paper published about 5 years earlier by W. R. Greg, which argues that natural selection is not active among humans (or, as the convention had it then, “Man”). It is most interesting … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, History, Race and politics, Social evolution
My office
The University of Sydney is covered with modern buildings, but it also has a few that date back to the 1850s. As it happens I’m located in one. It has no heating, cooling, or internal toilets, but look at it: … Continue reading
Filed under Administrative
Not Saint Darwin
Oh, I forgot, due to the lack of internets at home, to link to my essay that I mentioned before: Not Saint Darwin, in Resonance [PDF] Consider this my “death of Darwin” piece.
Myths about Darwin
We are going to hear a lot about Darwin this year, especially this month for his birthday (happy 200th, Chas. You don’t look a day over 150) and in November for the sesquicentenary of the publication of On the Origin … Continue reading
Filed under Evolution, General Science, History, Species and systematics
