Henderson’s’suggestion – describing the work of the academic who mainly teaches as “consumatory scholarship” – is a word game. There is a more direct way.
Month: June 2012
From MercatorNet: What can a brain scan tell us about ourselves?
Publicity around brain scans can create an uncertain, gullible public, easily swayed.
Beyond a joke
Remember the amazing story on Uncommon Descent a few days ago, about the private school science textbook which teaches that the Loch Ness Monster is real? Believe it or not, the story is true. It’s also three years old: way back in 2009, an article exposing the school program that publishes the textbook, Accelerated Christian […]
“One of the strongest lines of evidence” for dinosaurs as cold-blooded just collapsed.
The dinosaurs were assumed to be slow, cold-blooded, and stupid because that narrative fits the legacy of mid-twentieth century Darwinist preaching about the history of life.
Evolution Professor: “The Tree is All Wrong”
When Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in 1859 there were many scientific problems with the idea. Today, a century and a half later, we know of a great many more empirical challenges to the idea that the species arose spontaneously. The latest falsified expectation is that microRNAs, discovered only a few decades ago, when compared […]
The Darwinism that the Darwin lobby would sue to PREVENT children from learning in tax-funded schools
No surprise, it’s the real history of Darwinism applied to public and international affairs.
This Paper Will Be Cited As Showing How Those Complex Ion Channels Evolved
If you thought that Harold Zakon’sblunder in the very first sentence of his new PNAS paper, on the evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels, was merely the obligatory secret handshake and that thereafter Zakon would get down to business with some real science, well, think again. After his rather shaky start you’ll find that the second sentence is […]
Nature (journal): “Tearing apart” the traditional animal family tree
When this stuff is appearing in Nature on as regular basis, you know things are changing.
Remember serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer? Darwinism played a role in his crimes too
Add this one to the files about the Darwin-driven Columbine shooter and Finnish school shooter. And Norwegian mass murder Anders Breivik, who tumbled a generous dollop of Darwin in with the Norse gods …
Why, exactly, has Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) got good press for fifty years?
SETI is an essentially religious enterprise that doesn’t recognize itself as such. If it did, it would have to ask harder questions.
Science and Religion at the Portsmouth Institute
Some months back I was invited to speak at this summer’s Portsmouth Institute, which took place last weekend (June 22-24). The title of this summer’s symposium was “Modern Science/Ancient Faith.” See here for the schedule of talks. The speakers included Michael Ruse of Florida State University (keynote), Kenneth Miller of Brown University, John Haught of […]
Is a pattern in the cosmic microwave background really evidence of a past universe?
“One of the main problems is that Gurzadyan & Penrose don’t do their probability calculations right. “
Higgs boson (“God particle”) really exists?
The physics commenters are much less certain, as you will see, so the formal announcement should be interesting.
Why does epigenetics matter? Why is it bad news for Darwin?
Roundworms may provide a clue.
Convergent evolution: Separate development of the genetic patterns of intelligence?
Note once again the significance of convergent evolution – not evolving toward but converging on – the same solution, despite no close “common descent” relationship.