Is epigenetics becoming a part of normal science?
Peer review; At Discover Magazine, Neuroskeptic asks whether science can work without trust.
Remember that weird Cambrian, the Hallucogenia? Just a velvet worm?
Is mindfulness meditation good medicine?
Andrew Brown at The Spectator: Bizarre, costly cult of Richard Dawkins
Medieval treatise on universe astonishes scientists in Nature, “dense with mathematical thinking”
From Salon again: Four reasons why ID supposedly falls flat
Atheist TV is a bust, and no wonder
Inside the Higgs boson discovery
Plants talk to each other. Unfortunately, when they do, they sometimes lie and defraud.
Turns out, human parents can learn a lot from animals. Huh?
Mathematician Kadanoff says people should think about Dembski’s thesis—instead of running the guy out of town
Why do Some Materialists Insist on Wallowing in Obvious Error?
In the combox to the do we need context post a materialist who goes by RDFish states this regarding a non-repeating series of prime numbers (comment 48): The only known source of such a series is a human source. Fish then emphatically declares that absolutely nothing can be inferred about the source of the series other than the fact that it is able to produce the series (comment 125). I corrected Fish by showing how from his own concession an inference to the best explanation could be made. I argued as follows: 1. The only known cause of Y is Z. 2. We observe a particular instance of Y. 3. Because Z is the only known cause of Y, the inference to Read More ›