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#4 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: A Key Inference of The Edge of Evolution Has Now Been Experimentally Confirmed

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#5 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: Whale Hips, Another Icon of Darwinian Evolution, Takes a Hit

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#6 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: Phys.org Says the Argument for Suboptimal Design of the Eye "Is Folly"

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Universe, Planet, Proteins...It's Fine-Tuning All the Way Down

Don't miss a nifty Wall Street Journal piece today, that's important too, by our friend Eric Metaxas, concisely and amusingly explicating the cosmic and planetary fine-tuning problems. Subhead: "The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone?"

Unfortunately, it's behind a pay wall if you don't subscribe, but here's the kicker:

Today there are more than 200 known parameters necessary for a planet to support life -- every single one of which must be per...

Branding Popular Arts and Culture for Darwin

Evaluating the evidenceto date, we can choose to see the human mind as something beyond a natural, material phenomenon (the traditional view) or as a randomly heightened natural phenomenon (the current "view from science"). If society thoroughly adopts the "view from science" approach, whose origin is Darwinian evolution theory, how will we re-vision areas like personal relationships, business, and the arts? Fortunately, we needn't guess.

Personal Relationships

Evolutionary psychologyhit the a...

#7 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: Ciliate Organism Undergoes "Scrambled Genome" and "Massive...Rearrangement"

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Merry Christmas! Here's #8 of Our Top Evolution Stories of 2014: State-Run Museum Covered Up Collaboration with Atheist Groups

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Stephen Hawking's "God-Haunted" Quest

On Christmas Eve, I wish those of our readers who are Christians a very merry and meaningful holiday.

As for myself, besides helping our kids put together a recalcitrant backyard trampoline, over the upcoming holidays I'm hoping to catch up on some neglected movie going. I'm especially eager to see two biographical pictures about scientists in different fields (Alan Turing and Stephen Hawking) who are united in brilliance, in suffering (of different kinds) -- and in atheism. At Real Clear Rel...

Why Bioethics Should "Fail"

Julian Savulescu represents all that I find so objectionable about the mainstream bioethics movement.

Rejecting the sanctity/equality of human life, utilitarian in outlook, embracing a eugenics point of view, the Oxford professor -- what does that tell you? -- would lead society in a way opposed by most of the very peoplebioethics claims to serve.

Savulescu "gets" that the field has not swept all before it -- to which I would add, not for lack of trying. But he is clueless as to why that should...

#9 of Our Top Ten Evolution Stories of 2014: The Ham-Nye Creation Debate: A Huge Missed Opportunity

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