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Month: March 2012
Lucy ( afarensis) back in news: Maybe relatives had ape feet
This [finding] is fascinating, and makes the evolution of this defining behaviour not a single, linear evolutionary event, but a far more complex affair,” Harcourt-Smith says.
Exoplanets found that are nearly 13 billion years old?
Obviously, this makes no sense in terms of conventionally accepted timelines for the universe.
Here’s What That New UCSF Paper Says in Plain English (And Why Evolution Needs Another Do-Over)
If you had a four-letter alphabet and all words were three letters, then how many words would there be? The answer is 4 times 4 times 4, or 4-cubed, or 4^3, or 64. That’s how the DNA code works. Our DNA has four molecular “letters” and to create a protein the letters are taken three […]
Recent BioLogos meeting in New York: Enthusiastic despite being a minority
One wonders about the wisdom of revealing the fact that 60 attendees did not want their names published without permission (as opposed to just not mentioning the matter).
Meanwhile, from the Marquis de Sade, …
He (1740-1814) is still working on the discipline he founded, sadism, and regrets he doesn’t have time for our contest …
Contest: Who invented the phrase intelligent design?
Charles Darwin uses the term in an 1861 letter, in response to something John Herschel wrote.
Give Credit Where Credit is Due: This Powerful Prediction by Darwin Came True (And We Have it on Film)
As evolutionists will tell you, it may seem like all the evidence is against evolution, but when you put them all together, and keep on repeating to yourself that evolution is true, then it makes sense. Well here’s one incredible example of just that. As insiders know, there were some, little known, bizarre aspects of […]
Friday night fun: “Dawkins Dodge”
A “Wild West” rendition of Dawkins’ flight from the Craig/Dawkins debate. Some of it is verbatim.
It’s all these “could haves” and “would haves” that are the fundamental problem for origin of life studies.
How about a ten year moratorium on the terms? Thoughts?
Tens of billions of planets in the galaxy might have water?
It may be a bit too soon to start selling real estate. They found nine super-Earths in a survey of 102 stars. But so far, super-Earths have been disappointing.
Have conservatives really lost their faith in science?
Actually, almost no one loses their faith in science when it is evidence-based and useful. Who turns down cancer treatments that work?
Thirty-year-old book more true now than ever: Today’s irrationalism is a product of naturalism
“R. F. Baum, whose work has been applauded by thinkers as diverse as Sir Karl Popper and the late P. A. Sorokin, provides critical assessments of Darwinism, Marxism, and Freudianism in the light of empirical fact and logic.”
No wonder many black people don’t like Darwin’s theory
In other words, it was mostly the better informed people who realized what Darwinism is and where it was headed.
The Biologic Institute has a new Web design
Motto is nice too: “The more we learn about life, the more clearly it reveals design.”