by Richard William Nelson | Dec 3, 2015
Natural selection, sometimes known as the opium of evolutionary biologists, has long been envisioned as the driving mechanism of biological evolution. “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” by Charles Darwin was the first publication to popularize natural selection.
In the words of twentieth-century evolutionary biologist Niles Eldredge,
“A century and a half ago, Charles Darwin offered the world a single, simple scientific explanation for the diversity of life on Earth: evolution by natural selection.”
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by Richard William Nelson | Nov 5, 2015
Evolutionary paradigms are increasingly struggling to survive under the weight of new scientific evidence. The malarial evolution nightmare is the latest. “Think of a deck of cards,” said Dan Larremore in an interview with Quanta Magazine science writer Veronique Greenwood.
“Now, take a pair of scissors and chop the 52 cards into chunks. Throw them in the air. Card confetti rains down, so the pieces are nowhere near where they started. Now tape them into 52 new cards, each one a mosaic of the original cards. After 48 hours, repeat.”
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by Richard William Nelson | Oct 1, 2015
Nothing is simple in biology. Monica Young and Paul Hebert of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Canada, have found within the amino acid sequences of eight-legged critters, known as arachnids, an evolution bug.
In one of the most extensive invertebrate amino acid sequence studies to date, Young and Hebert found highly variable patterns of amino acid sequences in the hemeprotein known as cytochrome C between species. None of Charles Darwin’s continuous “successive, slight” evolutionary changes in more than 4,000 species of arachnids studied were found. The paper, published in the highly respected journal PLOS ONE in August 2015, demonstrates a persistent flaw in the theory of natural selection – the absence of a common ancestor.
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by Richard William Nelson | Jun 11, 2015
De-extinction is thought to have first appeared, as a word, in The Source of Magic (1979), a science fiction book by Piers Anthony, and caught the attention of Hollywood.
Using ancient cloned dinosaur DNA, popular ER television scriptwriter Michael Crichton then captivated the imagination of American film producer Steven Spielberg with the 1990 novel Jurassic Park, igniting the de-extinction craze.
In 2013, de-extinction was announced to be a science, at least according to journalist Ben Macintyre writing in the Times (London, March 8).
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by Richard William Nelson | Apr 2, 2015
Microbes, once thought to be life’s simplest forms, are now known to use complex, synchronized genetic processing as a defensive system against foreign invading microorganisms.
As a previously unknown and unrecognized genetic mechanism, CRISPR challenges the tenets of evolution. This microbial defense process, now known as CRISPR, further undermines natural selection’s fundamental principle of early life spontaneously emerging from simple processes.
In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin envisioned life starting “from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful.” CRISPR presents a new challenge to current theories of evolution, including Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, and the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution.
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Natural selection, sometimes known as the opium of evolutionary biologists, has long been envisioned as the driving mechanism of biological evolution. “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” by Charles Darwin was the first publication to popularize natural selection.
Nothing is simple in biology. 
