Once upon a time, I wrote online for Examiner.com as the Atlanta Creationism Examiner. Now that all the links to my work have been disabled and can no longer be found on their website, I've decided to republish some of the better material here on my own website, since I wrote it and own the content of the article. The title of the article has not been changed. The links in the originally published post have been deleted, however, since most of them were no longer functional. I think it's information worth sharing again... They say you can’t judge a good book by its cover.  Apparently you can’t always tell from the title, either.  Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution (edited by Paul S. Moorhead and Martin M. Kaplan) didn’t look like riveting material on first glance. Once I started reading, it proved difficult to put down. The premise for the book was rather interesting.  In the mid 1960s, four mathematicians were attending a friendly picnic hosted by Kaplan and a fellow biologist.  During their lunch a rather spirited discussion of evolution theory spontaneously erupted. The biologists proposed a more formally organized showdown with the four mathematicians at a later date.  After negotiating their reprieve, they recruited a pair of prominent advocates of evolution theory: Sir Peter Medawar and Dr. Ernst Mayr. Medawar chaired the symposium. If the reader wonders how the meeting went, perhaps biologist Kaplan’s rather peevish preface gives some indication.  He mischievously quoted a pair of mathematicians (speaking ill … [Read more...]