Inconveniently, there were only two parachutes.
Month: September 2011
DNA Dynamism
Just in at PhysOrg.com. Non-dividing brain cells quickly undergo epigenetic changes. “It was mind-boggling to see that so many methylation sites — thousands of sites — had changed in status as a result of brain activity,” Song says. “We used to think that the brain’s epigenetic DNA methylation landscape was as stable as mountains and […]
This is the only way some people can understand the design of life
One can smell the corruption when the only way to talk about what really happens is “flaws.
Strange new features spotted on Mercury
From Rachel Kaufman, National Geographic News (September 29, 2011): The planet Mercury is dotted with holes that appear to be unlike any other landform yet seen in the solar system, new pictures show. And just think, that little fryball is the last place you’d expect the unexpected, too …
The gay squid makes the front page of the New York Times. And the faster-than-light neutrinos do not. Which means what?
That’s part of the reason that the Times’ circulation has been tanking for years.
Where Are the Neutral Genomes with these Mutations?
As readers of UD know, Elizabeth Liddle is convinced that in any population there are neutral versions of the genome that have every needed variation an organism must have. Change the environment, and, lo and behold, the organism changes. But what has happened here? Let’s quote the article: H5N1 evolved in poultry in east Asia […]
Hybridization as a Challenge to Common Descent?
Here’s an article from New Scientist that will be open for the next seven days to registered viewers. It’s about the “metamorphosis” of species from larval to adult stages, and brings in the views of Donald Williamson. Here’s a link to his 2006 paper, and the entire abstract (it’s worth it!): Examples of animal development […]
Mysterious Denisovans were just us? In furs?
Beware of people who preach that common sense is a bad thing. Usually, they are promoting NON sense in its place.
A riposte, sort of, to that Doonesbury cartoon …
Here. A riposte to that Doonesbury cartoon. Yeah, over a year ago. But now that Einstein is down in flames (?), we decided to stop thinking that it even matters. Follow UD News at Twitter!
The worldview of Darwinian Evolution
The essay stimulating this blog emerged from the Darwin Bicentennial year, when surveys of “educated lay people” in Switzerland revealed that only 20% had any clarity of thinking about Darwin’s theory of evolution. About half explained it in a circular way, another 20% implied some form of Lamarckism and the remaining 10% talked about evolution […]
Biologos warming up to young earth creationism? Or Darwinists just don’t get intellectual freedom?
Listening to someone other than Jerry Coyne would be fun, even for Jerry Coyne.
Imagine a universe where Einstein could be wrong, …
Here, we still hold out hope that the faster-than-light neutrinos are an honest mistake. But the glory of real science is precisely that Einstein could be wrong.
People watch: Marxist philosopher starts to “get” religion
Philosophers in office too easily confuse the Life of Virtue with what the law can enforce.
The jaw-dropping brilliance of evolutionary psychology: Darwin explains wife-beating
Darwinism need only be proclaimed to be believed and embraced by adoring popular culture. Making sense is irrevelant.
Bad science by Dr. Victor Stenger, arguing in the cause of atheism
(Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN. Courtesy of Adam Nieman and Wikipedia.) Dr. Victor Stenger is a physicist who worked for 30 years with neutrinos until his retirement in 2000. He is also an outspoken New Atheist and a leading critic of Intelligent Design. In a recent Huffington Post article (No cause to dispute […]