Origins & Design, Vol. 17, No. 1

Published by Access Research Network. Copyright ©1996.

Publication Information

Table of Contents


Editorial

Welcome to an Evolving Publication

The Editors bid farewell to Origins Research and welcome you to Origins & Design, the newest journal in a very old debate.


News and Commentary

Colin Patterson Revisits His Famous Question About Evolution

Since the late 1970's, the thinking of English paleontologist and systematist Colin Patterson has been a focal point of controversy in biology and evolutionary theory. O&D reports on Patterson's revisting of his famous question, "Can you tell me anything about evolution that is true?" and looks at highlights of his published (and unpublished) work.


Articles

The RNA World: A Critique

Gordon Mills and Dean Kenyon

Within the past decade, the RNA World hypothesis -- the idea that life began with a self-replicating RNA molecule -- has moved from intriguing speculation to widely-accepted theory. Yet behind the excitement lies a landscape of chemical difficulties which render the RNA World highly problematical.

On the Design of the Vertebrate Retina

George Ayoub

It is widely argued by evolutionary biologists that the vertebrate retina is poorly designed, revealing the handiwork of the blind watchmaker, natural selection. However, this suboptimality argument is exceedingly weak, ignoring the available evidence about the actual structure and function of vertebrate eyes.


Literature Survey

Survey

Levinton on Kauffman; Penman rethinks cell structure; Snyder illuminates Whewell; Sullivan and Dawkins spar; and other selections.


Book Reviews

Desmond

Huxley: The Devil's Disciple. London: Michael Joseph, 1994; 475 pp.

Davies

Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life. New York: Basic Books, 1995; 160 pp.

Dennett

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life.New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995; 586 pp.


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