Monthly Archives: June 2016

Some further thoughts on black pepper

Posted on 04/06/2016 by Jon Garvey

I just want to expand briefly on some strands in the updated peppered moth story  that I didn’t follow through in the last post.

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Black power

Posted on 02/06/2016 by Jon Garvey

I retain a nodding interest in the peppered moth, because it was one of the main examples of evolution I was taught in A-level zoology in the late ’60s. Since then it has suffered ups and downs both in real life and in its academic reputation.

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Laws, damned laws, and statistics

Posted on 01/06/2016 by Jon Garvey

One key part of the argument John Wesley brings for there being particular providence (see previous post), as against only general providence, is that the latter necessarily consists of the sum of the former: You say, “You allow a general providence, but deny a particular one.” And what is a general, of whatever kind it be, that includes no particulars? Is not every general necessarily made up of its several particulars?

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