At the heart of the theory of evolution is the untested assumption that random changes, called mutations, can beget beneficial modifications or improvements in an
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The Continuum of Life
To see Life, as Darwin did, and as many of his numerous admirers continue to do, only as unceasing competition between different organisms is completely
The Many Things that Chance Cannot Beget: The Hamburger Argument and the Conception Fallacy
There is a widespread belief that, given enough time, chance, or randomness, can produce a very wide range of different possible outcomes, including those, such
The Limitations of Natural Selection
The general scientific belief is that the processes of mutation and natural selection have been able to produce all the many different, wondrous creatures that
The Selfish Gene Does Not Exist
Early in The Selfish Gene, the book’s author, Richard Dawkins, declares, “I might say to you ‘Darwin was the greatest man who has ever lived’,
The Science Myth: The Humanity Experiment
At the beginning of the essay “The Capitalism Myth,” I considered the question of whether science can be considered as a sort of myth. Most
Homo Stupidus 