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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How God Designs Things
There are mistaken beliefs held by both religious and scientific people about God and Its vast creation, the Universe. Even today, many religious people dogmatically
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 Life Project: Pascal’s Wager Writ Large
In several other essays, I have argued that God intervenes periodically in the evolution of Life, whether to invent reproductive or other mechanisms, such as
Why do Honeybees have Barbed Stingers? The Law of Balance
Besides the many other interesting things about them, an interesting fact about honeybees is that they belong to the only bee species to possess barbed
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