The origin of man is the most contentious aspect of evolution in the minds of many religious people because it flies in the face of biblical writings and traditions, and the concepts of evolution are incompatible with their faith. The … Continue reading →

Finally, my opinion on how the ongoing and increasingly acrimonious issue of same-sex versus traditional man and woman only marriage versus polygamy in any of its several forms should be dealt with. My opinions are based on a grasp of … Continue reading →

The adult human brain of today averages about 1,300 grams in weight, compared to an elephant’s 5,000 grams, and a whale’s 10,000 grams, both of which are much smaller than the human in terms of brain to body mass. The … Continue reading →

A major evolutionary leap took place with the evolution of the brain in mammals. Mammals–which appeared in the fossil record after the first fishes, amphibians, and reptiles–are the only vertebrates to possess the evolutionarily recent, outermost portion of the cerebral … Continue reading →

The concept that humans evolved is one of the most contentious of all issues in the world of modern education. It flies in the face of the common-place and common-sense understanding of religious thinking people around the world. Beginning in … Continue reading →

In my earlier blog; and in Blog 1. of this group of Friday blog posts, I avoided opinion as much as possible on this volatile issue and tried to stay with a dry presentation of the legal arguments and their … Continue reading →

In the complicated processes of genetics described in blogpost 20, it is evident that there are multiple areas where even minor alterations in the function of genes, the production of proteins, and the influence of external factors can result in … Continue reading →

Although researchers made brilliant discoveries that contributed to the understanding of heredity and of evolution before mid-twentieth century, the discovery of DNA–a biological molecule in the shape of a double helix–changed the rate of acquisition of knowledge and understanding of … Continue reading →

The findings described in Evolution Blogspot 18 make it no longer tenable to presume that the myriad different forms of organisms currently extant or those that preceded modern organisms came by specific and different mutation-produced adaptations, separate and distinct from … Continue reading →

This is an update on my previous blog post regarding same-sex marriage. I will begin in Blog 1. with an update on the legal movement to effect same-sex marriage; then in Blog 2.  I will present an argument from a … Continue reading →