Monthly Archives: July 2012
No, we didn’t know that about Francis Crick, double helix co-discoverer, either
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
“Francis Crick confessed that he was tripping the first time he envisioned the double helix.”
Why humans are more compassionate than cats?
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Or why someone’s human evolution thesis needs a tune-up …
Ken Miller’s science problem
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
Apparently, this is all in aid of preventing Jindal becoming the vice-presidential nominee. Which means he may well be a good choice.
Here’s Shellska’s slide show
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
The key question is how she can get away with doing a PhD thesis based only on second hand information when first hand info is readily available.
How science should handle new ideas
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Science |
“Science moves forward not by enshrining, but by doubting and improving on, the consensus opinion.”
Christine Shellska: “Discovering the Discovery Institute” (NOT)
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Education |
An entire PhD dissertation about the Discovery Institute is being put together by Christine Shellska. Her claim is: I argue that the Discovery Institute has “rebranded” creationism as ID, and that its strategies include attempts to disrupt the translation of evolution into education and the broader public. Discovering the Discovery Institute Some problems with her […]
And in other news, Jerry Coyne is NOT friends with Michael Ruse
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, News |
Ruse: “They [the Templeton Prize Committee] are never going to give it to a non-believer like me. “
Ancient statue with a tale to tell
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
But people in what is now Turkey were doing this sort of thing 10,000 years earlier …
Evolutionists Are Losing Ground Badly: Both Pattern and Process Contradict the Aging Theory
| July 31, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
It just doesn’t make sense that the entire biological world spontaneously arose all by itself. But the challenges to evolution go far beyond the intuition. When Charles Darwin proposed his unlikely idea in 1859 it defied much of what was known about biology in that day. Today, the situation has only become worse. If there […]
Materialist science writer resigns due to making up Dylan quotes
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, News |
“he had admitted to fabricating quotes attributed to Bob Dylan in “Imagine,” a nonfiction book published in March by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.”
Did the Moon form like we thought?
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
The nice thing about science news is that it is not the summer reruns. There really can be new ideas.
ID Conference Suggestions?
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design |
The recent Engineering and Metaphysics conference (abstract and videos available here) came about because of what I saw as a glaring need in the ID community – a place for mid-level ID researchers to come together and openly talk about topics of interest. Most ID conferences, historically, have been by a fairly closed group of […]
“The Bible says it, therefore I believe it”
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by David Anderson under Creationism, Mind |
The Bible says it, therefore I believe it Sal wonders why someone might say “the Bible said it, therefore I believe it”, unless they are “supremely gullible”. This is an epistemological question. I approve of the formula, so I’ll try and answer why. Firstly, let’s clear away some possible misunderstandings. The formula presupposes that the […]
Still stewing over life’s preference for left-handed amino acids
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
The problems the press release doesn’t mention are usually far more interesting.
Sometimes, one runs into ID opponents who are just so confused ….
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', News |
… that it is hard to know what to say in response.
Great vid of net casting spider catching cricket
| July 30, 2012 | Posted by News under News |
In net. Filmed in real time and played back on slo mo.
He said it: Michael Crichton on consensus science
| July 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Science |
Interestingly, the officially Christian American Scientific Affiliation is totally into consensus science. Strange turnabout, really.
People who think they have a soul eat less healthy diets than those who don’t?
| July 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, News |
Proof of miracles? We can have our cake and eat it too? Or … oh wait, isn’t Psychological Science on the bunk detection list? Despite which …
Morals: Some now claim that the government fixing our brains is the only solution
| July 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, News |
If, as is admitted, they may be no more effective than pulpit-bashing, but risk an additional suite of evils, that is a perfectly good reason for rejecting them out of hand.
Human-ape common ancestry: A monkey chimes in
| July 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
That man descends from our noble race – The very idea is a disgrace.
