Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse (Birmingham, June 21, 1940) is an English philosopher of biology at Florida State University, well known for its work in the controversy creation vs. evolution and in the demarcation problem in science.

Controversies
He actively participated in the debate in Congress involving creating x evolution. He also writes about sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. He is the founder of the journal Biology and Philosophy,.

Interviewed by Ben Stein in the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ruse was asked to explain how one gets from an inorganic world to the world of the cell. All Michael Ruse could answer was to evoke a popular theory that this transition had been made ​​"on the backs of crystals". That is, the only answer that Ruse had a hand to launch is that the complex molecules that we see in the cells were formed in an increasingly complexity way supported on the backs of crystals. In his response, Ruse comes to cite in this process the emergence of mutations. Ruse concludes that this is "at least a hypothesis".