Monthly Archives: August 2014
Memories: Letters that clarify C.S. Lewis’s dismissal of evolution (“central and radical lie”) donated to Belfast U
| August 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism |
But just wait till a career academic gets a grant to cast doubt on the obvious interpretation, and win Lewis back for Darwin.
If anyone cares, Biologos (Christians for Darwin) will now actually review Darwin’s Doubt
| August 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design |
But Meyer is #6 in paleontology. So who cares whether Calvin College’s God would design anything or not? Sorry, issues have moved beyond Christians [heart] Darwin
Christianity Today online piece tries to meld neuroscience and Christian spirituality
| August 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Naturalism, Neuroscience, News |
Both come off looking like clunkers.
“Meaningfulness” genes study torn apart by critic in journal article
| August 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Culture, Genetics, News |
About time someone started outing the nonsense instead of peddling it.
Caution: Neuroscience quackery in the boardroom and classroom
| August 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News |
Much of the quackery seems to consist of repackaging common sense marketing or motivation techniques as “neuroscience,” and upping the price.
Still legal to say this about Darwinism and “scientific racism”?
| August 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
A day before yesterday everyone knew that Darwin’s theory underwrote racism as a *science-based* belief. Then it became un-PC to say so.
Mark Frank poses an interesting thought experiment on free will
| August 30, 2014 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
In a comment on kairosfocus’ latest excellent post, Does ID ASSUME “contra-causal free will” and “intelligence” (and so injects questionable “assumptions”)?, Mark Frank proposes a thought experiment in support of his view that determinism is fully compatible with free will. It goes as follows: Start with a dog. Dogs make choices in the sense that […]
Have we discovered how fish first learned to walk on land?
| August 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
But if they are that plastic, wouldn’t they just go back to the water, given a chance?
E. O. Wilson: Give half the planet to wild animals
| August 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
At some point, wouldn’t you think at least some commentators would start putting two and two together about some of these people?
Experiment to test whether we live in a 2-D hologram
| August 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
If the general thesis is accepted, would it provide support for the Law of Conservation of Information, which William Dembski uses in his new book Being as Communion?
On, the fallacy of worshiping the “short” and the “simple” . . . or, why good long copy outsells short copy
| August 30, 2014 | Posted by kairosfocus under Darwinist rhetorical tactics, General interest |
As UD regulars will know, it’s silly season here in Montserrat. As a result, I am facing the long vs short copy debate and the issue of the demand for excessive simplicity. Which, opens us up to be naive and easily misled — including when we indulge the fallacy of selective hyperskepticism. (As in: if […]
Fri Nite Frite: Have we done a snake frite lately?
| August 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Animal minds, News |
May as well be snakes.
News of a primitive Cambrian fish?
| August 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design, News |
If this interpretation of the fossil holds up, the vertebrate class was present in the Cambrian too.
Has “philosophical superficiality” harmed physics?
| August 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
Carlo Rovelli: Science has never advanced in this manner in the past. Science does not advance by guessing.
Coffee!! A thigh bone found on Mars?
| August 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
Beats the face on Mars, but we’re still waiting for the silhouette of Sherlock Holmes.
Live Stream Faith, Science & Culture: Does God Still Matter tonight, with Steve Meyer
| August 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Okay, okay, vacuum the cat hair off the couch instead. Priorities.
Peer review: Not publishing social science studies with null results harms public discourse
| August 28, 2014 | Posted by News under News, Peer review |
Not publishing null results may skew people’s ideas about the society around them.
Big Bang lithium shortage a “hard nut to crack”?
| August 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Intelligent Design, News |
It sounds like a fun problem, actually, dare we say—a lighter moment?
Animal with muscles found from 560 mya (Ediacaran period)
| August 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Ediacaran, News |
Unlike most other Ediacarans, it does not look like a plant.
Stone-tipped spears 500 kya indicate increase in human cognitive and social skills?
| August 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
Researchers: Stone-tipped weapons were a significant innovation for Middle Pleistocene hominins.
