The Skeptical Zone

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Posted on February 13, 2016 by Mung

There exists in nature biological forms not explicable by Darwinian theory.

A new video has been posted on youtube.

Do non-adaptive and beyond-adaptive order pose an existential challenge to Darwinism?

Denton says yes.

Darwin’s Finches Are Evidence for Evolution? Think Again

Allan Miller on February 18, 2016 at 10:49 am said:

CharlieM,

i notice that Coyne does not even mention Noble’s examples of genetic networks. Does he have any arguments trying to refute Noble on these?

A central confusion I note in Noble is the mixing up of developmental and evolutionary gene concepts.

Coyne takes an evolutionary perspective. Noble thinks it’s all about phenotype. Phenotype is not irrelevant to evolution, but there is still a demarcation between evolutionary alleles and the units or interactions considered in phenotype.

I think there may be a large chunk of talking at cross purposes.
Mung on February 18, 2016 at 4:53 pm said:

Allan Miller: If you’re crossing one species with another, and the offspring are fertile, they aren’t really different species, biologically speaking, even if we choose to name them so (dumb archetypal essentialists that we are). You can cross dogs with jackals.

Does this mean that a new species that arises by symbiogenesis isn’t really a new species?

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