Also, University administrator: Burn book advocating academic freedom on campus!
Month: May 2013
The powers of 10 and the human body
Recently, we noted cicadas’ apparent predilection for the prime numbers of 13 and 17.
Either Tallis is right or Darwin will save us from the plague of disembodied space brains
Darwinism + Cosmology = Utter Nonsense
Neuroscientist: Not only isn’t philosophy dead, it isn’t even on life support
Tallis is, of course, best known for his recent book, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity.
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Barry Concedes a Point to TSZ, Well, Sorta
My thanks go to KF for pointing out the dustup over at TSZ over my last post. I found this little gem at TSZ particularly amusing. Allan Miller quotes me and responds: Barry: “Materialists are obliged to believe …” Miller: … absolutely nothing. There is no obligation. Well Allan, I suppose it depends on what Read More…
TSZ explodes in anger and mischaracterisations over BA’s recent post at UD: “If My Eyes Are a Window, Is There Anyone Looking Out?”
(In case you think this is about a strawman, cf. here) A few days ago UD President, BA, posted on the topic, “If My Eyes Are a Window, Is There Anyone Looking Out?” Reaction at objecting blog TSZ has been explosive. For just one instance — a slice of the cake reveals its ingredients, we Read More…
Pioneer geneticist George Church should watch his back?
When you aim at Darwin’s dullards, you must not miss.
Cicadas remain a mystery of evolution
As those who live among them will know, the 17-year insect, the cicada, emerges en masse this year after five larval stages, mates and dies. They are an ongoing puzzle: In 1665, the first volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society included a report from New England concerning “swarms of strange insects, and the Read More…
So extinction might be reversible? Flowing wooly mammoth blood found in carcass
If this find holds up, watch for people reopening the recent debate about bringing extinct creatures back to life by cloning them.
Rough terrain caused humans to start walking upright? Yet another bipedalism theory
There are probably more theories on why humans took to walking on two feet than there are suspects in the famous Piltdown Man fossil fraud
NCSE affirms evolutionism is no longer the core of science education
I think the NCSE got tired of defending Darwinism. I guess the Discovery Institute promoting ID and the creationists promoting creationism was bad enough, but when mainstream scientists began to join the anti-Darwin fray, it was too much. So what did the NCSE do? They found something to replace Darwinism as the central core of Read More…
VIDEO: Guillermo Gonzalez lectures at UC Davis on the Privileged Planet thesis
WK has pointed out a vid sequence at YouTube, in which Dr Gonzalez lays out a good summary of the privileged planet thesis. Here is the start: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt WK (what, you haven’t bookmarked and speed-dialled this blog yet? tut, tut! . . . ) summarises on points of significance for reflection: Read More…
How ID helps scientists: providing a framework for complexity
COMPLEXITY =/=> EVOLUTION Many Darwinists equate complexity with evolution. They see the fossil record of increasing complexity with time as precisely what defines Evolution. But is increasing complexity always a good thing? The history of computers is instructive. Your iPhone and laptop computer are constructed using base-2, principally because flip-flops and early binary circuits were Read More…
The fine work of Joe Felsenstein and M. Wilson Sayres
Joe Felsenstein is an evolutionist that has a unique distinction of having his work favorably cited by creationists and bible scholars (except where he disagrees). For example, religious scholars are using Joe’s work to find descendants of the line of priests from the time of the Bible’s King David. See: Y-Chromosomal Aaron. Joe is also Read More…