BBC show on Ediacaran fauna 7 Jul 2009 A commenter just posted this: Greetings Ediacara fans, You may be interested in tuning into In Our Time BBC Radio 4, at 0900 BST on Thursday (9th) July. See here for the links. Evolution Species and systematics Systematics
Species and systematics The ontology of biology 4 – pattern and process 16 Jan 200918 Sep 2017 One of the enduring mistakes made in science and philosophy is to confuse how things seem with how they are. In biology, the conjunction “pattern and process” has been around for decades, at least since 1947 in ecology, when Alex Watt used it as a title for an essay on… Read More
Evolution Sunday sermon: on cultural isolation 22 Dec 2007 Okay, so the Eighth Day Inventism calendar as rolled around to coincide our Holy day with one of yours. We Inventists are open minded people and often try to reach out to you heathen irreligious puppy grinding moral monsters. Because that’s what you are, you know, if you don’t exactly… Read More
Evolution Myth 7: Darwin thought that Australian aborigines were closer to apes than to Europeans 1 Mar 200925 Oct 2019 Actually, this one is better called “Darwin was a racist”, but as the text concerned is from the same source as those claims, I thought it might be easier to evaluate a single claim and generalise from that. Our gospel for today is chapters V and VI of The Descent… Read More