Giuseppe Sermonti

Giuseppe Sermonti (1925-2018) was a retired Professor of Genetics at the University of Perugia and the chief editor of Rivista di Biologia/Biology Forum, one of the oldest still-published biology journals in the world. He is the author of seven books, including Why Is a Fly Not a Horse? (2005), Genetics of Antibiotic-producing Microorganisms (1969), Dopo Darwin (1980), Fiabe dei fiori (1992), and Il mito della grande madre (2002).

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The Eclipse of the Organism: No Longer Biology’s Central Interest

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
December 10, 2025}

Organisms have disappeared below the horizon. In many papers on DNA the organism is barely mentioned.

From an Eagle’s Egg, an Eagle, and Other Mysteries

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
November 30, 2025}

Pavel Florenskij, a Russian physicist and theologian (1882-1937), imagined a field on the surfaces of icons that portray sacred images.

Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

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November 17, 2025}

Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth?

Book Excerpt: Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

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November 9, 2025}

Evolutionism is really more of a paradigm or methodology than a theory. For its supporters, the important thing is that it was due to natural causes.

Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
July 11, 2005}

About the Book In Why Is a Fly Not a Horse?, published by Discovery Institute Press, editor of the prestigious Italian biology journal Rivista di Biologia, Giuseppe Sermonti, explains why evolution resembles a “paradigm” more than it does an explanation. Scientists assume that the theory and its implications (such as universal common descent) are true, but no one can ever explain the details of precisely why it is. According to Sermonti, naturalistic theories of biological origins are science-stoppers. Sermonti explains that biology has advanced greatly when naturalistic theories of biological origins have been disproved. For example, in 1688 Francesco Redi performed an experiment which refuted the notion that flies come from rotting meat — Redi discovered …