Monthly Archives: July 2013
Cambrian monster Hallucigenia had relatives, surviving kinfolk?
| July 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, News |
So they never really died out, or not exactly. Oh well, they are small. We are big. And we have coffee.
William Lane Craig calls Michael Behe a theistic evolutionist
| July 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, News |
And better known than genome mapper Francis Collins.
Followup to Instapundit: Stuff you should know about the Scopes trial, fast
| July 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
These eye-openers and many others are well-attested facts that don’t get the TV face powder.
100 fossil group study overturns evolution claims? But so? Still business as usual for the Darwin lobby
| July 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, News |
So what if those are the facts? The Darwin lobby still has pundits, lawmakers, and celebs to spread their “branching tree of life” message.
Here’s That New Fossil Study That Found a Crack in Evolution
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Animal groups do not evolve greater and greater new designs as time goes by, but rather are at their maximum level of diversity early in their history. And species must be constrained in how much they can change. The ignorant babblings of creationists? Ridiculous criticisms of IDs? True they have been making such claims for […]
When media get hold of the term “evolved” …
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Evolution, Media, News |
Up-to-the-eon reporting is sure to follow.
Darwin explains why women live longer than female apes
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
This is not a mystery if you assume that older women tend to be intelligent enough to look after themselves and each other and to stay close to people who will help them. In some places, this is called a family; in others, a retirement residence.
“Two simulations reach opposing conclusions about why monogamy evolved in primates”
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
“It’s hard work in my experience, so why would so many primates do it?” he asks.
How do you derive moral principles from theism?
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Ethics, Religion |
Usually this is not a topic I deal with, but an UD commenter gently asked such interesting question in another thread. Theism states a transcendent Principle, which is One and Infinite. This Unity is the First cause of the universal existence, of all beings and all things (for this reason He is also the Great […]
Giant viruses cast doubt on a common ancestor of all life forms
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Biology, News |
And suggest quite the opposite pattern.
Can the eye-tipped tentacles of starfish shed light on early eye evolution?
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Are these eyes close to the earliest organisms’ eyes?
Protons smaller than formerly believed?
| July 30, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
Used to be “unthinkable” to question the measurement, apparently.
Theism, atheism and morality
| July 29, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
As I see it, the current discussion about the relation between theism, atheism and morality is bedeviled by two false and often unexamined assumptions. First, it is assumed that if an act is self-evidently wrong, then that counts against a theistic account of morality. Second, it is assumed that if a theistic account of morality […]
At Slate, Daniel Engber argues that the age of nonsense neuroscience is already over …
| July 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Neuroscience, News |
Some of us aren’t sure if that fungus is really dead or just dormant. It doubtless took a huge hit from its use in politics:
The Instapundit gets it about the Scopes Trial
| July 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
Instapundit: What you think you know about it is probably wrong — especially if what you think you know about it comes from watching Inherit The Wind.
WD400: selection favors malfunctioning proteins, so what?
| July 29, 2013 | Posted by scordova under News |
WD400: Selection can sometimes favour mutations that break existing proteins. OK, so what? Comment, If not Rupe So what? 😯 1. if selection can select in favor of breaking of proteins, so why then do we presume selection favors creation of proteins? 2. selection can select against breaking of proteins, but that would be no […]
Peer review: Key journals published molecular biology papers with altered data?
| July 29, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Peer review |
Without sites like Retraction Watch, we would just never know about it.
Epigenetic differences between humans and chimps (vs. 98% similarity claims)
| July 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Epigenetics, News |
Epigenetic studies provide some insights into ways in which similar genes can result in very different outcomes. Of course, they will significantly complicate the study of genetics and of evolution in consequence.
Convergent evolution of turtle shells?
| July 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Convergent evolution, News |
Article: Researchers trying to reach consensus about how the shell develops have concluded that turtles may have more than one way to build a turtle shell.
