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Month: December 2013

Just For Fun News

New Years Eve fun: The night life you never see

Watch carefully at 2:02 for footage of elusive cougars (North American mountain lions)

Posted on December 31, 2013December 31, 2013 Author News Comments(3)
Books of interest News

More lists for best new science books of 2013

Is it true that investing in basic science is the only thing that has ever driven economic growth on a large scale?

Posted on December 31, 2013 Author News Comments(2)
Cosmology Physics Privileged planet

Cocktail! The Fingers of God are pointing at you

In further commemoration of Halton Christian “Chip” Arp, Chip pointed out many star clusters are aligned in such a way that they point toward us. So severe has been the unease over this that some have called the phenomenon “The Fingers of God”. 😯 Quoting Chip’s website: What do they think this cluster is? In Read More…

Posted on December 31, 2013January 26, 2014 Author scordova Comments(44)
News Peer review

Of thirteen social psych studies, guess which two could not be replicated?

Also, is peer review systemically misogynist, as one author claims? Read our answer below.

Posted on December 31, 2013 Author News Comments(2)
Cambrian explosion News

Darwin’s Doubt: “I would love it if there was no controversy”

Makes reader “feel the wonder of science again I felt as a kid.”

Posted on December 31, 2013 Author News Comment(1)
Intelligent Design

The Pew Forum Poll Reveals More Ignorance

Following the recent Harris pollwe now have a Pew Forum pollout today on who believes what about evolution, and we can expect another round of reports from the elites on the shocking ignorance that continues to persist in fly-over land. Unlike the Harris poll which asks about belief in Darwin’s theory of evolution and usually runs around Read More…

Posted on December 31, 2013 Author Cornelius Hunter Comments(11)
Intelligent Design

ID Foundations, 1a: What is “Chance”? (a rough “definition”)

Just what is “chance”? This point has come up as contentious in recent UD discussions, so let me clip the very first UD Foundations post, so we can look at a paradigm example, a falling and tumbling die: 2 –>As an illustration, we may discuss a falling, tumbling die: Heavy objects tend to fall under Read More…

Posted on December 31, 2013December 31, 2013 Author kairosfocus Comments(63)
Cosmology News

Halton Arp, hero to both YECs and anti-Big Bangers, passes away

The Big Bang is both beloved and despised among members of ID’s big tent. William Lane Craig, Guillermo Gonzalez, etc. favor the Big Bang. But the YECs in ID’s big tent despise the Big Bang because it disagrees with YEC. Thus the YECs have formed a rather strange alliance with certain ID-haters who despise the Read More…

Posted on December 30, 2013December 31, 2013 Author scordova Comments(27)
Intelligent Design

Can we trust opinion polls on evolution?

In the past year or so, there have been at least four major American opinion polls on evolution, and they’ve given wildly divergent results, and even different trends in levels of support for Darwin’s theory of evolution. Are the sampling techniques faulty, or are the surveys sloppily worded? The recent American opinion polls on evolution Read More…

Posted on December 30, 2013 Author vjtorley Comments(10)
News Physics

Top physics stories for 2013 include four-quark particle and possible dark matter signal

2014 may see some actual signals from dark matter, so far assumed to exist but elusive.

Posted on December 30, 2013 Author News Comments(3)
Cambrian explosion

Apparently, some people are reading Steve Meyer’s book, Darwin’s Doubt, on the Cambrian explosion…

… just not some of the reviewers, or so it seemed

Posted on December 30, 2013December 31, 2013 Author News Comments(12)
Intelligent Design

Ludwitt’s questions, my answers

Ludwitt is writing a paper. I’m answering his questions as if he were a student writing a paper. Let’s say hypothetically his professor hates ID like some of my professors, but were fair and just. I want him to be able to articulate ID clearly in his paper, but I want also for him not Read More…

Posted on December 30, 2013December 30, 2013 Author scordova Comments(14)
Intelligent Design News Peer review

Some grate moments in peer review through history

Asking a crowd of experts can lead to more accurate knowledge or to strengthened conviction and a sense of righteousness and harmony with reality without more accurate knowledge. In short, it can sometimes lead to disaster.

Posted on December 30, 2013December 30, 2013 Author News Comments(3)
News Peer review

Retract that, sir, or face the consequences! Er, maybe.

Top ten retractions of 2010, courtesy The Scientist.

Posted on December 30, 2013December 30, 2013 Author News Comment(0)
News Off Topic

Wonders of nature that you’ve probably never heard of

and it might have been difficult or impossible to get near some of them anyway …

Posted on December 30, 2013 Author News Comments(2)

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