Anti Gravity: An Immodest Proposal; June 2009; Scientific American Magazine; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

I have an idea. (No, it was not beginner's luck.) The idea came to me while listening to University of Chicago evolutionary geneticist Jerry A. Coyne give a talk on a cruise ship in early March. If you remember last months column, you already know about the hardships of science lectures on the high seas, where "buffeted" refers not to the effects of winds and waves but to the feeling you get after one too many trips to the smorgasbord. But I digest. I mean, digress.

Creationists argue that speciation has never been seen. Here's part of a December 31, 2008, posting by Jonathan Wells on the Web site of the antithetically named Discovery Institute: "Darwinism depends on the splitting of one species into two, which then diverge and split and diverge and split, over and over again, to produce the branching-tree pattern required by Darwin's theory. And this sort of speciation has never been observed."