by Richard William Nelson | Jan 11, 2016
The status of evolution as a science is verging closer to extinction following a workshop in Germany last month. The essence and definition of science were at the center stage at this historic convening of leading physicists and philosophers of science last month.
The meeting convened in the Romanesque-style Ludwig Maximilian University lecture hall. Science writer Natalie Wolchover covered the story for Quanta Magazine, entitled “A Fight for the Soul of Science,” and later reprinted on TheAtlantic.com, entitled “Physicists and Philosophers Hold Peace Talks.”
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by Richard William Nelson | Aug 5, 2015
Sharks get a bad rap. With only a cartilaginous skeleton, sharks were once thought to be the primitive evolution forerunner of the fish originating more than 400 million years ago during the Paleozoic Era―yet somehow surviving unchanged.
Sharks suffer as a stereotypical indiscriminate evolution forerunner, surviving only to kill with unintelligent, deadly instincts. However, a new study on the migratory patterns of the tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, published in the journal Nature, dispels these misconceptions.
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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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by Richard William Nelson | Apr 3, 2014
Oxygen is one of life’s most essential atomic elements. As molecular biologist Michael Denton highlights in his book “Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe,” oxygen is the key element for “one of the most important chemical reactions on Earth.”
While oxygen is the third most abundant chemical element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium, oxygen is the most abundant chemical element by mass in the Earth’s biosphere, air, sea, and land, adding one more agonizing Achilles Heel to the theory of evolution.
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by Richard William Nelson | Mar 20, 2014
Over the past two decades, a treasure trove of fossils has been unearthed in China. Some of the world’s most exquisitely preserved feathered dinosaurs, birds, reptiles, and mammals have been recovered near the quiet northeastern China village of Daohugou.
Chinese farmers first discovered the trove near this Inner Mongolian village in 1998. The following summer, two distinct salamander species were recovered. Since then, the now-infamous fossil site has been named the Daohugou Biota and has yielded more than 30 different vertebrate taxa (groups). The treasure trove of scientific evidence, however, further upends Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution “by means of natural selection.”
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The status of evolution as a science is verging closer to extinction following a workshop in Germany last month. The essence and definition of science were at the center stage at this historic convening of leading physicists and philosophers of science last month.
