Monthly Archives: April 2014
Neanderthals were not mentally inferior, study finds
| April 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
What? Is the world so far forsaking Darwin that we have entirely forgotten why the Neanderthals were originally thought to be inferior?
Early galaxy behaves as if mature
| April 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Astronomy, News |
Good news: No one has so far suggested that the simple explanation is that they are left over from the universe that predated this one.
Why telling more people the good news of Darwin won’t help
| April 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Education |
Because they already know it and most often for that reason don’t believe it.
Jumping genes, a mechanism of minor evolutionary change
| April 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Genetics, Intelligent Design, News |
Oh, by the way, this form of evolution does not turn a cob of corn into a monkey face orchid.
Our sun is just a typical star?
| April 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design |
If there are “no special requirements for a star to host a planet with life” (= any old fireball will do), where ARE all those space aliens anyway?
Evolution Professor Sets New Record With 1.5 Hits Per Minute in Debate
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Evolution is a fact, but what kind of fact? To answer this question one must listen to the evolutionists. In his recentdebate versus Paul Nelson, Joel Velasco gave a nonstop version of Darwin’s one-long argument that, once again, makes clear what kind of fact evolution is. Velasco gave a rapid-fire rundown of the scientific misrepresentation, logical […]
Laszlo Bencze: So evolution is a poor at predicting results?
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
Maybe Darwinian evolution is just not a good enough theory to justify all that has been done in its name.
LiveScience now permits Darwin doubt?
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Actually these types of problems have been around for quite a while but everyone who finds a piece of them walks the plank, so …
Many genes relatively new, scientists find
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolution, Genetics, Genomics |
New genes might be as important a factor in evolution as gene duplication.
Too much of something can be a good thing for ID
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by scordova under Genetics, News |
One reason I’ve hammered the 500 fair coin illustration and the law of large numbers is that it illustrates how to use the binomial distribution to reject chance as a mechanism. In certain contexts, the law of large numbers is much easier to use than the more generalized design detection methods discussed here. When looking […]
Why ask nature questions when we don’t want her answers?
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by News under News, Peer review |
The difficulty is that in a world where nature may or may not co-operate with the “correct” results, the problems may well lie deeper than the intended reforms.
No universal Transition-Transversion mutation bias
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by scordova under Genetics, News |
Occasionally evolutionary biology tries to inform chemical theories, but given the shaky foundation of certain evolutionary claims, maybe this isn’t a good idea. Years ago, in a debate, an evolutionist said something to the effect, “Sal you’re clueless, transition mutations happen 10 times more frequently than transversion mutations.” I’m sorry now I took that evolutionist’s […]
Y chromosome kept for “very specific reason,” “not random”
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design |
We’ll know Darwin’s influence is waning when no one wastes word count in journals speculating on how it all just sort of happened
Dreams are really about Darwinian reproductive fitness?
| April 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
Stories like this rely, among other things, on a reader group that knows the Darwinian terms of art like “reproductive fitness.” And not much else.
Flying reptile found from 163 mya
| April 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Oldest known flying reptile
Search for our earliest ancestors: Signals in the noise
| April 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Naturalism |
Paleontologists have long hungered for a species halfway between human and ape, to cast in the world’s face as evidence for mud at work. What have they found?
Pop human evolution: What multitudes believe
| April 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
And THIS is the type of human evolution theory that makes Darwin’s followers a culturally dominant voice?
Many thanks to Gordon Davisson and Joe Felsenstein for review and criticism of my UD article
| April 28, 2014 | Posted by scordova under News |
I previously highlighted the work of Jean Claude Perez in my Vodka! essay. I had encountered Perez work in my google searches related to the 3-base periodicity pattern in DNA. The 3-base pattern seems widely acknowledged in the literature as On the origin of three base periodicity in genomes. Genomes of almost all organisms have […]
Why didn’t natural selection prevent sister’s schizophrenia?
| April 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Natural selection, News |
Because “natural selection,” as generally understood, is a spook that can’t prevent anything.
What to do with our education in human evolution? Stuff it!
| April 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind, News |
The Canadians have suggested that we start by trying to do it in as inconspicuous a manner as possible. Our purpose is fact-finding, not attention-seeking.
