In May of this year, John Avise — an evolutionary biologist at UC-Irvine — published an article (“Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome“) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. The article, which attacked Intelligent Design “theory” on the ground that an omnipotent and [...]
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Evolution as Salvation for Theology? Not So.
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Evolution, Evolutionary Adaptation, Evolutionary Byproduct, History, Philosophy
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The Un-Intelligent Design of Religions
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Axial Age, Cognition, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Adaptation, History, Hunter-Gatherers
Over at HuffPo Religion, Michael Zimmerman has posted an interesting piece on the wild imperfection of the human genome and the implications of this imperfection for “intelligent design” believers:
The latest attack [on ID] appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) and provides conclusive evidence that [...]
