Watch carefully at 2:02 for footage of elusive cougars (North American mountain lions)
Month: December 2013
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?
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”. đŻ Quoting Chip’s website: What do they think this cluster is? In Read More…
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.
Darwinâs Doubt: âI would love it if there was no controversyâ
Makes reader âfeel the wonder of science again I felt as a kid.â
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 Darwinâs theory of evolution and usually runs around Read More…
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 â>As an illustration, we may discuss a falling, tumbling die: Heavy objects tend to fall under Read More…
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…
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…
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.
Apparently, some people are reading Steve Meyer’s book, Darwin’s Doubt, on the Cambrian explosionâŚ
⌠just not some of the reviewers, or so it seemed
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…
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.
Retract that, sir, or face the consequences! Er, maybe.
Top ten retractions of 2010, courtesy The Scientist.
Wonders of nature that youâve probably never heard of
and it might have been difficult or impossible to get near some of them anyway …