Blogzone: bee evolution

James McGrath at Exploring Our Matrix, and also in comment here. I have no general animus against peer review, and fields such as Global Warming I would tend to applaud the system of interactive checks by scientists. But, I fear, that just doesn’t work in evolutionary theory. There is no standard of science by which to measure a theory of evolution, for the simple reason that noone has a good one. You can adopt Darwin’s inadequate theory, and make it standard, and then conduct peer r... more

Hucklebird, you are the Hegelian triad expert, check out Zizek’s book for me. I fear you are a mystic reactionary, otherwise, ‘dialectical materialism’ might be just your stomping grounds, all those triads getting us past Kantian dualisms, and driving evolution in nature. A full report, please…. ... more

Looking through: The Parallax View (Short Circuits) (Hardcover). by Slavoj Zizek (Author) After yesterday’s post on Marxism: http://darwiniana.com/2007/12/06/ok-lets-talk-firing-squadsthe-brain-dead-left/, I came across Zizek’s work, The Parallax View. I have to admit I picked up this book with a sour attitude, in no mood for any more Marxist bullshit, hence I am unlikely to consider it fairly. Actually, the book is morbidly interesting in its type, but finall... more

Islam’s Silent Moderates by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, NY Times Reposted from:Dawkins site http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/opinion/07ali.html (more…) ... more