Researchers: “This is the first clear example of snake venom evolving for defence, and provides a remarkable example of convergent evolution, or how natural selection can cause the same solution to a problem to evolve multiple times.” Sure, it all just somehow happens with no underlying intelligence in nature?
Termite mounds help demonstrate the design of life
Researchers: Adding to the complexity of the nests is the fact that not only do termites build simple ramps to connect floors but they also build spiral ramps, like the ramps in parking garages, to connect multiple floors.
Scientists are divided: Is phase separation “sloppy science” or “groundbreaking idea”?
It’s one of those “self-organization” controversies where no one dares to admit they are talking about intelligent design.
Australian lungfish has largest animal genome
Don’t we need some information theory to understand life?
Why Michael Denton is an important but under-recognized figure in the ID community
Here’s an interesting assessment of non-Darwinian microbiologist Michael Denton’s work: in The Miracle of the Cell he concentrates on one example of fine-tuning after another… Biologists may have once held simplistic notions about the origin of life, back in the heady days following the iconic Miller-Urey experiment. They may have thought they were on the Read More…
Why is Retraction Watch not what we hoped it would be?
Rob Sheldon: There was nothing either unethical or inaccurate in the paper. The conclusions were wrong. This is true of over 50% of papers in the literature. Further papers show why the conclusions were wrong. No one retracts a paper because the data was interpreted improperly. For example, Newton’s conclusion that the universe was unstable. Einstein’s conclusion that a cosmological constant could stabilize it.
Universe’s number of galaxies may be smaller than believed
Only billions, not trillions, NASA now says.
“Why Evolution is Different” Video Now in 4 Languages
Science has been so successful explaining other phenomena in terms of purely unintelligent natural forces, why should evolution be so different? That is the primary argument against intelligent design, and it is the reason that Darwinism, an extremely implausible theory which becomes even more implausible with every new biological and biochemical discovery—but the best theory Read More…
Kirk Durston now has a YouTube channel
He hopes to address common science, philosophy, and faith issues.
Casey Luskin is back, after years in the field!
Why he left (the non-conspiracy version): My PhD project focused on the “Pongola Supergroup,” a major section of supracrustal rocks in southeastern South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces) and southern Swaziland, aged ~2.8 – 3.0 billion years old.
Suffice to say, this project involved months and even years of fieldwork, lab work, data analysis, and writeup. Like most PhDs, mine had its ups and downs, complete with excitement, fun, blood, sweat, tears, near-madness, sheer terror, and utter boredom.
Tardigrades’ list of superpowers grows
They couldn’t withstand humans grinding them up but hey…
Here’s a relatively new argument against the idea that our minds are an illusion
Stevens: Illusion theory has no rule of reproducibility. Yet, if you set up the infinity mirror experiment at another time, you will see the same effect.
Illusion theory has no rule about how other observers perceive their illusions.
Design in nature: It turns out electric eels work together to zap prey
Maybe it’s not the eel, who remains stupid about everything else. It is intelligence in nature. Wallace was right.
Martin Luther King on materialism vs. design in nature
Why was the racists’ idea about brain size considered at all? Materialism does that to people and King was right to see it and call it out.
Closer to Truth: Are there really extra dimensions?
One can’t help wondering what the notion of many additional dimensions is supposed to do. … By now, you probably get the picture. The side door to “Anything we want to believe is true.”