Monthly Archives: September 2013
Darwinian philosopher (so he describes himself) Michael Ruse has a new book out on the Gaia hypothesis
| September 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
Ruse: People joined Gaia groups; churches had Gaia services, sometimes with new music written especially for the occasion.
Emptying Darwin’s waste basket: Brain errors
| September 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, News |
This of course has nothing to do with false memory, nor is the caution most people display under the circumstances described in the story an example of error.
Broadcaster tells new atheists: Quit whinging
| September 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
Enright: Atheists are not being prosecuted or silenced. They are lovingly tended by media interviewers, me included, and their nuanced arguments are politely acknowledged.
Does the mere thought of science trigger morality?
| September 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
So claims a science journal. This sounds so like a religious group struggling with the wake of a scandal: The people who sin are not applying our belief system correctly.
Alien life found floating 27 km above Chester, England?
| September 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Well, maybe. Trouble is, earthly life forms have often surprised, amazed, astonished researchers with hitherto unrealized capabilities.
What’s science and what’s not: ET vs. Bigfoot
| September 28, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Science |
There is a fun and revealing book for a cultural historian in how each gets classified as science or non-science .
Endowed Chair at Johns Hopkins named after ID proponent
| September 28, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Epigenetics, Intelligent Design, News |
Philanthropist, world-renowned eye surgeon James Gills co-authored two ID-friendly books Darwin under the microscope and The Mysterious Epigenome and spearheaded an ID-friendly project related to the epigenome. Named after him is the James P. Gills Professorship in Opthalmology at Johns Hopkins University. Here is a nice narrative of Dr. Gills: TARPON SPRINGS – The blue-masked […]
Quit saying you are a Nobel Prize winner if you are not
| September 28, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Peer review |
Why did it take so long to even try to put a stop to this abuse?:
Humans descended from ape-like creatures? A skeptical look at the fossil record
| September 28, 2013 | Posted by News under Human evolution |
Luskin: In fact, scientists are quite sharply divided over who or what our human ancestors even were.
Fri Nite Frite: Supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way will erupt again
| September 27, 2013 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
National Geographic: The question is not if there will be another eruption, but when, scientists say.
Latest consciousness theory: Rocks have minds?
| September 27, 2013 | Posted by News under Mind, Naturalism, News |
So instead of nothing is mind, the latest proposal is, everything is. Hush, listen when your coffee cup is talking …
Another rabbit jumps the hat: 419 mya JAWED fish
| September 27, 2013 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, stasis |
Fish guy, yer gettin’ ta be a rabbit with me.
FYI-FTR: TSZ post, Sept 12, 2013 describes “creationists” — ENEMIES OF HUMANITY
| September 27, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, FYI-FTR, ID Foundations, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society |
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Sometimes, it is necessary to shine a spotlight on behaviour that is beyond the pale of reasonable civil discourse. Especially if, after repeated attempts to call for correction, we see instead the blog owner — here, EL of TSZ — and others insistently pretending that such falls within the circle of reasonable freedom of expression. […]
Commentator Ed Driscoll on Popular Science’s “No Comments” editorial tantrum …
| September 27, 2013 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
He’s got a point. If they weren’t treating their theories about global warming and evolution as a religion, they’d hardly care so much about the fact that their combox is not a total fan club.
New study: Oxygenic photosynthesis goes back three billion years
| September 26, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
An international team of scientists has published an article in Nature magazine, suggesting that oxygen began accumulating in the atmosphere at least three billion years ago. The team’s findings raise a troubling question for Darwinian evolutionists: how did the exquisitely complex metabolism of oxygenic photosynthesis arise so soon after the dawn of life? The team […]
From the latest Salvo: Eric Hedin & the Contested Boundaries of Science
| September 26, 2013 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Astronomy, Atheism |
The guy who was not allowed to teach a course that featured information pro design in the universe, but other profs were allowed to teach against it? Background story here.
The cosmologist the cosmos listens to?
| September 26, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
Neil Turok heads the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, which Stephen Hawking calls the pre-eminent centre for astrophysics in the world.
What’s really at stake in finding life on Mars?
| September 26, 2013 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Tom Bethell: An article of our secular faith holds that there is nothing exceptional about human life. This is dogma, lacking any justification, but it has already been codified as the Mediocrity Principle.
New cosmology explains acceleration of universe—only if no Big Bang
| September 26, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
Cosmologist: Time and space are not independent entities but can be converted back and forth between each other.
