In WEIT there is a chapter on vestigial traits, defined as those traits that are evolutionary remnants of features useful in an ancestor, but now either useless or used in a different way. The paradigmatic case is, of course, the appendix, the remnant of a caecal pouch used to digest leaves and vegetation in our [...]
Any chance, you think, that these people believe in kenotic or apophatic theology?
Thanks to John Danley for the link
Some of us have called for Francis Collins to resign from the woo-laden BioLogos Foundation before taking up directorship of the National Institutes of Health. Not that he heeded our call or anything, but he’s gonna step down. Let’s hope this leads the whole ghastly foundation to crumble.
From an article in the latest Nature:
The BioLogos [...]
As of noon tomorrow, I’ll close down the contest for a rare, autographed first printing of WEIT, and our expert panel of judges (me) will declare a winner. The rules and the entry thread are here.
Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean Carroll (the physics one) has a nice essay on the nature of a scientific question. He begins with a discussion of the empirical content of religious beliefs, which some (including journalist Jeremy Manier, who comments on this blog) seem to find unimportant or irrelevant in discussing the compatibility of science [...]
