A decade ago, it designed lesson plans for teachers that focused on
weaknesses in evolutionary theory and presented «intelligent design» as a scientific alternative.
The artist's use of the monkey as main character acknowledges both its symbolism — in the Chinese Zodiac the monkey is the most versatile and creative of astrological creatures — as well as its important
role in evolutionary theory.
«Sex is one of those subjects that everybody thinks they know about,» says Elisabeth Lloyd, a philosopher at the University of California at Berkeley who's writing a book about bias
in evolutionary theories about female sexuality.
The same applies to its alter ego Intelligent Design — no testable hypotheses, no predictions, just a lot a bogus attempts to poke
holes in evolutionary theory, all of which have been soundly refuted.
Scientific method can verify only those hypotheses for which there is a sufficient amount of data available from the records left by the past (such as
fossils in evolutionary theory) or observable in the present.
The EES has gotten pushback from many biologists who think that things like cultural evolution and niche construction are already accounted
for in evolutionary theory, and that therefore the EES is unnecessary.
Each stack is dedicated to a topic somehow related to his
work in evolutionary theory: the origins of behavioral disorders, the epidemiology of tuberculosis, the way modern humans overrode Neanderthals.
I don't think it will be difficult to overcome this obstacle, because a shift towards less dogmatic attitudes is happening everywhere in science, not
only in evolutionary theory.»
«But those evolutionary biologists who by tradition owned explanatory
authority in evolutionary theory (primarily population geneticists) are losing this privileged position in the EES, and some don't take it well.
It arrived at a moment when a new
interest in evolutionary theory — both in science and philosophy — mixed with a mode of artistic practice favouring ethnographic research, which has now become known as the «anthropological turn».
They seem to misinterpret any limitation or
flux in evolutionary theory to mean that the validity of this body of research is fundamentally in doubt.
We don't know for certain why participants showed the preferences they did, but the authors of the study speculated that it may have its
basis in evolutionary theory.
One of my concerns with Bachmann is her complete scientific illiteracy... I wish someone would take her to task and name ONE Nobel Laureate scientist that supports «Intelligent design»
in evolutionary theory.
Some groups who favor a literal interpretation of Genesis have proposed a number of anti-evolution bills, from state to state, proposing classroom debate about alleged «weaknesses»
in evolutionary theory, although scientists see no such problems.