User:Oplopanax

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I am "Nic Tamzek" of the II Evolution/Creation forum and "zosdad" or "niiicholas" of talk.origins. My academic interest is biogeography, particularly phylogenetic and macroevolutionary aspects. Basically I am a biology nut with a spatial/geographical perspective. My main interest in the Intelligent Design debate is in the biological side, particularly "irreducible complexity". Most of the ID debate is philosophical or religio-political and is poorly informed about the actual biology under discussion. Unfortunately this applies to some of the critiques of ID as well as most of the ID advocates, so I try to bring the biology back into the center of the debate, where it should be.

Web articles:

• Evolution in (Brownian) space: a model for the origin of the bacterial flagellum
• Icon of Obfuscation

EvoWiki pages I've made significant contributions to:

• Biogeography
• Peppered moth
• Flagellum
• Evolution of flagella
• Mary Midgley

Posts I want to keep handy

• On classification and transitional fossils: http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=107389
• Speculations on moral philosophy and evolution http://www.iidb.org/vbb/showthread.php?p=2015022&posted=1#post2015022
• "Junk" DNA not junk? October Scientific American

In real life I recently graduated and got my Master's degree in geography, see my grad school webpage.