• "Unsung Savior"
• "The Impassive Bystander"
• "Striptease clothing drive enrages local charities" (via FRC Action)
• "Let's Get Rid of Darwinism"
• "The slow death of congregational singing"
• "Algeria convicts 2 for promoting Christianity"
• "Holy sex@40" (adult themes)
• "Stop apologizing"
• "Boeing Boeing"

Comments

[FriarThom]

Thank you for Olivia Judson's article "Let's Get Rid of Darwinism". Does it signal fresh thinking and agreement with the passage below?

"I’d like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the brainchild of a single person 150 years ago, rather than a vast, complex and evolving subject to which many other great figures have contributed. (The science would be in a sorry state if one man 150 years ago had, in fact, discovered everything there was to say.) Obsessively focusing on Darwin, perpetually asking whether he was right about this or that, implies that the discovery of something he didn’t think of or know about somehow undermines or threatens the whole enterprise of evolutionary biology today.

It does not. In the years ahead, I predict we will continue to refine our understanding of natural selection, and continue to discover new ways in which it can shape genes and genomes. Indeed, as genetic data continues to flood into the databanks, we will be able to ask questions about the detailed workings of evolution that it has not been possible to ask before."

[Gina Dalfonzo]

Do you mean fresh thinking on my part? No, I'm still pretty stale. :-) The inclusion of a piece in the Daily Roundup doesn't necessarily mean that any of us agree with it; it only means that one or more of us found it interesting.