site author: Anthony Wheeler email: anthonywheeler72@hotmail.com
Natural Historian
The Vicarian Domain: Search for the Secret of Life
We now know not only of the existence of a break between the living and non-living world, but also that it represents the most dramatic and fundamental of all the discontinuities of nature.
Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
Response to David Grinspoon's Lonely Planets
In this age of narrow specialization and the proliferation of technical vocabularies virtually incomprehensible to outsiders, the role of science books written specifically for a general audience is absolutely critical.
Exchange with Dr. Lynn Margulis
Response to Douglas Futuyma’s Evolution
After debating the current status of evolutionary theory with a molecular biologist, I was invited by her to read Futuyma’s Evolution in order to further educate myself on the subject, and perhaps become convinced that current theory generally explains the nature of evolution, with fundamentally little left to discover.
Having done so, I am left with the following three impressions: