Reading Michael Denton's Mind...and Getting It Wrong

Michael Denton's new book, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, is stirring controversy. For example, over at University of Toronto biochemist Larry Moran's blog, Sandwalk, a debate over what drives evolution -- natural selection or genetic drift -- is going on.

Natural selection is, of course, the means by which evolution is supposed to receive its direction, from less fit to more fit organisms. Of all the forces proposed by modern biologists to drive evolution, natural selection is the onl...