June 2014
Creationism as common sense
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The dirty dozen: Twelve fallacies evolutionists make when arguing about the origin of life
One of the advantages of having an academic background in philosophy is that you learn how to spot bad arguments. The origin of life is a subject where fallacious arguments proliferate. In this post, I’ve put together a list of a dozen common fallacies that bedevil scientific speculations regarding the origin of life. The next time you come across a paper on the origin of life in a science journal, you might like to check how many fallacies the author of the paper commits. For the sake of convenience, I’ve listed the fallacies here: 1. The fallacy of begging the question. 2. The fallacy of conflating the issues. 3. The fallacy of confusing the unknown with the undemonstrated. 4. The Read More ›
How come humans’ opinions about our origin doesn’t matter?
Today, “anti-science” just means “I think for myself”
And now … Godzilla of Earths? Soon to be a movie?
Gas dwarfs: “Neapolitan Earths” missing from our solar system
A Clever Spliceosome Mechanism Was Just Reported
In the seventeenth century clocks were a favorite comparison with the complex workings of nature. In the eighteenth century the analogy switched to watches. Now, with the latest crystal structure mapping of the incredible spliceosome machine, which edits newly transcribed gene transcripts, we’re back to clocks. But this time the complexity services evolution rather than design. First for an explanation of the results: Read more