Our contributor JB asked to have a conversation on what is important in Mathematics, especially Math education. I shared some thoughts. >>Why not, let’s just do that, follow it up and see where it goes? For instance, I think a key insight is to find a useful, powerful definition of what mathematics is. If we […]
Psych prof concedes, ID is not “absurd”
No, it’s not. Now, what about psychology in its present state?
Mark Steyn on the politicization of science journals
It sounds like, in their ideal scenario, the rest of us would never know, except for our own experience, if what they are saying is incorrect.
How the ATP synthase points to design in nature
Mark Tapscott at HillFaith (for Congressional staff): “Life Is Simply Impossible Without This ‘Irreducibly Complex’ ATP Generator, So How Did It Get Here?”
Researchers: Original animals were all carnivores
The researchers think the original animals preyed on protists or one-celled animals (a shell eat cell world?).
Researchers: Earth may not be the most life-friendly planet
Their computer model might seem more convincing if a single extraterrestrial life form of any sort had ever been found.
More pop science fallout re Jeffrey Epstein: Stu Pivar and PZ Myers
No, no, Pivar and Myers didn’t do anything except fall out—with litigation threatened. But there’s an Epstein connection in the story—as there seems to be to a lot of things Darwin these says. And, say what you want, that guy Epstein sure picked his targets.
Shedinger: When Darwinism becomes culture, mental issues become physical
There is, of course, more to the story of what goes wrong but honestly doubting the existence of one’s mind is a good start.
Yes! Now there is a Darwinian explanation of suicide
It’s amazing what passes for insight among evolutionary psychologists. How would it help anyone decide how to help a depressed person? Read the whole thing for sure. It gets into beehives and such.
Birds must choose between big brains and big guts
This is further indirect evidence— not, of course, drawn out here—that the human brain did not develop the way it did simply to enable survival.
Want more aggressive spiders? Look for hurricanes
Mainly fun. But seriously, the main question is, when the weather calms down, won’t the spiders tend to just stop being so aggressive? It’s interesting if this is what is meant by “robust evolutionary responses.”
Straw in the wind? Darwin’s random variation is discredited in a recent paper
They propose “nonrandom variation”. Later: “Darwin’s idea that variation is generated randomly has largely been taken for granted rather than tested, representing a fundamental gap in our understanding of evolution.”
And so now psychoanalyst Carl Jung was a racist too…
Darwinians have gone to such lengths to defend Darwin when, it is becoming clear, everybody who lived before Political Correctness was a racist. One interesting thing about the linked story about Jung (1875-1961) is the pushback it is getting from the combox.
At First Things, they are also getting over Darwinism
At some point, the question should become: Apart from their unquestioned capacity to wreck the careers of doubters, what exactly DID the Darwinists get right *that no one else did*?
Huh? Stone Age tools developed locally 325 kya?
Researcher: “The combination of these different technologies in one place suggests to us that, about 325,000 years ago, people at the site were innovative.”