So they never really died out, or not exactly. Oh well, they are small. We are big. And we have coffee.
Month: July 2013
William Lane Craig calls Michael Behe a theistic evolutionist
And better known than genome mapper Francis Collins.
Followup to Instapundit: Stuff you should know about the Scopes trial, fast
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
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
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 Read More…
When media get hold of the term “evolved” …
Up-to-the-eon reporting is sure to follow.
Darwin explains why women live longer than female apes
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”
“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?
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 Read More…
Giant viruses cast doubt on a common ancestor of all life forms
And suggest quite the opposite pattern.
Can the eye-tipped tentacles of starfish shed light on early eye evolution?
Are these eyes close to the earliest organisms’ eyes?
Protons smaller than formerly believed?
Used to be “unthinkable” to question the measurement, apparently.
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Theism, atheism and morality
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 Read More…
At Slate, Daniel Engber argues that the age of nonsense neuroscience is already over …
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: