Food for thought.
Month: October 2011
Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez on habitable planets: “Our universe is a small target indeed.”
Perhaps, the less we know, the easier it is to imagine “THEY are out there” – without the undue burden of details.
Why America might pull through the demographic collapse
It is mainly religious people who raise children, and more women in America are religious.
This has got to be the stupidest anti-ID article ever written …
But we must hope Blumenthal writes way, way more of this stuff.
Surprise, surprise: Children like to work together but chimps don’t
Compare this with recent claims that orangutans have culture. The reason orangutans don‘t have culture is precisely stuff like this.
Design inference: And you thought the genetic code was difficult to crack …
“But the white whale of the code-breaking world is the Voynich manuscript”
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution
We have now reached the fourth part of my series on Wikipedia and the evidence for common descent. In previous entries, I discussed Wikipedia’s arguments for common descent based on comparative physiology / biochemistry, comparative anatomy, and paleontology. Now I am going to address the arguments from biogeographical distribution. Biogeography is essentially the study of […]
He said it: “[t]he universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference” — professor Richard Dawkins’ cynical manipulation of our moral sensibilities
In recent days, UD contributor Dr V J Torley has rightly taken atheism advocate, professor Richard Dawkins to task for cynical manipulation of our moral sensibilities in his public accusations against Christian philosopher-theologian, Dr William Lane Craig. And that, patently to avoid having to account through a public debate for his many acid fulminations against […]
An interesting way of visualizing cell design
“The algorithms organize the intertwined 3D surface-contour data into simplified orthogonal cell abstractions and the components can be sorted to emphasize particular comparisons with proximity. “
J. W. Wartick on Fuz Rana’s “The Cell’s Design”
“The Cell’s Design is an extremely difficult read, but it does not leave readers who are not scientists to flounder.”
James Barham on atheists indulging the fantasy of murdering “bad” Christians
Thing is, Dexter’s a poisonous type of fantasy. Real police socios don’t conveniently happen to victimize only Bad or Dangerous People. They victimize people. Full stop.
Christian Darwinists getting purged from Calvin College?
Vocal Darwin supporter Steve Matheson has left too.
Human evolution: Us n’ the dog – a furry tale
The DNA evidence remained controversial for years, even as most major studies placed the genetic separation of wolf and dog at earlier dates than those favored by archaeologists. Hard proof was slow to appear.
D. S. Wilson, leading Darwinist: America leads the world in denial of evolution, also popular media supposedly cares less than ever about truth
By the way, is it actually true that “truth counts for less and less in the popular media.” Isn’t that just toff rot? Where some of us live, you can actually say “honor killing” legally now.