Monthly Archives: December 2013
New Years Eve fun: The night life you never see
| December 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
Watch carefully at 2:02 for footage of elusive cougars (North American mountain lions)
More lists for best new science books of 2013
| December 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Books of interest, News |
Is it true that investing in basic science is the only thing that has ever driven economic growth on a large scale?
Cocktail! The Fingers of God are pointing at you
| December 31, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Cosmology, Physics, Privileged planet |
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 […]
Of thirteen social psych studies, guess which two could not be replicated?
| December 31, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Peer review |
Also, is peer review systemically misogynist, as one author claims? Read our answer below.
Darwin’s Doubt: “I would love it if there was no controversy”
| December 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, News |
Makes reader “feel the wonder of science again I felt as a kid.”
The Pew Forum Poll Reveals More Ignorance
| December 31, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
ID Foundations, 1a: What is “Chance”? (a rough “definition”)
| December 31, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Halton Arp, hero to both YECs and anti-Big Bangers, passes away
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Cosmology, News |
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 […]
Can we trust opinion polls on evolution?
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Top physics stories for 2013 include four-quark particle and possible dark matter signal
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Physics |
2014 may see some actual signals from dark matter, so far assumed to exist but elusive.
Apparently, some people are reading Steve Meyer’s book, Darwin’s Doubt, on the Cambrian explosion…
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion |
… just not some of the reviewers, or so it seemed
Ludwitt’s questions, my answers
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Some grate moments in peer review through history
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Peer review |
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.
Retract that, sir, or face the consequences! Er, maybe.
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Peer review |
Top ten retractions of 2010, courtesy The Scientist.
Wonders of nature that you’ve probably never heard of
| December 30, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Off Topic |
and it might have been difficult or impossible to get near some of them anyway …
Morphological Discontinuities Trouble Evolutionists
| December 29, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
NeoDarwinism expected a fine gradation of form from one species to the next but the distribution of morphologies is clumpy at virtually all scales. Appeals to gaps in the fossil record don’t solve the problem and now evolutionists are considering more complex explanations for how evolution could have produced such morphological discontinuities. They are also […]
Gag order? Intelligent design? Will “design” stop being a swear word if we just keep using it?
| December 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News |
Bullied? At Amarillo College? Aw, poor widdle buweaucwats. Like we said at the time, who knew so many wusses even LIVED in Texas?
Oxford’s Denis Noble’s page of resources against neo-Darwinism…
| December 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Epigenetics, Intelligent Design, News |
… you might not have found anywhere else
Anyone recall that neurosurgeon who wrote Proof of Heaven (2008)?
| December 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, News |
The trite saying is true: On their deathbeds, people really DON’T wish they had spent more time at the office. And if they come back to tell us about it, they are quite likely to act on that insight.
Successful physicist (and Wall Streeter) explains how he stopped being an atheist
| December 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Atheism, Mind, News |
Anyone familiar with down-and-outers will recognize the scenes he describes. Because—contrary to what many materialists claim—desperation brings out the animal in some but the stifled saint in others.
