Semantics: Did Francis Bacon ever use the term “critical thinking”?
Asking Bill Dembski: What would a school lesson plan for ID consist of?
The Awesome Power Behind Evolution: It Is Unfathomable That a Loving Higher Intelligence Created the Species
In his book Inside the Human Genome Evolution professor and National Academy of Science member John Avise continues with the usual evolutionary religious claims that the evil and inefficiency of biological designs—at the molecular level in this case—necessitate evolution, for such designs would never have been designed or created by a loving higher intelligence: Read more
UD Commenter Nick Matzke in Prestigious Scientific Journal Nature Again
I believe this is already the 2nd time that Nick has graced the pages of the world’s leading science journal. See: Predicting a state shift in the biosphere, and communicating it. Looks like it is the cover story too! Nick and I have been opponents in the ID / Evolution debate for years. I’m glad that scientists of his caliber visit UD and debate with us. Congrats Nick. PS The other time I congratulated Nick was here: Congrats Nick Matzke for Publishing ID Sympathetic Paper
Sat nite at the movies: Yup, parallel world explains loss of neutrons in experiment
Sat nite at the movies: Great three D animation of the cell
Another myth shattered: Smart people are MORE vulnerable to thinking errors, not less
Not finding the God particle may be a bigger deal than we think
Caroline Crocker to give talk on bunk detection in science at American Scientific Affiliation meeting
God or Alien, who done it? A review of Prometheus
The Religious Fundamentalism Among Us
As a general rule, those who are convinced they are free of metaphysics are those who are most beholden to metaphysics. Evolution professor and atheist P.Z. Myers once explained in an LA Times piece that he is “pretty certain that if there were an all-powerful being pulling the strings and shaping history for the benefit of human beings, the universe would look rather different than it does.” Pretty certain God wouldn’t have made this world? Myers is known for his strident views and he probably has never stopped for a moment to ponder the rather awkward question of how he knows of that certainty. For while Myers criticizes others for their religious beliefs, Myers’ notion of how the universe would and would not look Read More ›
Mathematical Darwinian Absurdities
When I was growing up my father (who is the most brilliant scientist I have ever known — he worked on the Manhattan A-bomb project, was the founder and director of an experimental nuclear reactor at Washington State University, and developed the Ph.D. program in chemical physics at WSU) delighted in giving me puzzles to figure out. One in particular I remember: He asked if I would rather be given a million dollars, or be given a penny one day, two pennies the next day, four pennies the next day, and doubled pennies for a month. Of course, I knew it was a trick question, so I did the math. The doubled pennies would be worth 10 million dollars in Read More ›