Monthly Archives: October 2014
Complex life might have evolved “inside out”?
| October 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Well, “blebs” is a great new word, anyway.
Did a low oxygen level delay complex life on Earth?
| October 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design, News |
BBC: “Another researcher was more critical of the study and said the role of oxygen was overstated.” Some animals need very little.
Evolution driven by laws? Not random mutations?
| October 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, Intelligent Design, News |
If an establishment figure can safely write this kind of thing, Darwin’s theory is coming under more serious fire than ever.
Physicists explain quantum theory by discarding Occam’s Razor
| October 31, 2014 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
The theory has everything going for it but evidence. But today, why should that be a problem?
Enzymes use quantum tunnelling?
| October 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Biology, News, Physics |
If so, it makes sense. The quantum world exists, whether anything uses it or not, but in nature everything tends to get used.
Plato wins the argument against brain scientists?
| October 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Plato may win the argument, but there is increasing evidence that many metaphysical naturalists are past all that “argument” stuff.
Plausible model for the simplest self-replicator (SSR)?
| October 30, 2014 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
Maybe we could get serious answers about origin of life if we started by taking the problem seriously – from an engineering perspective.
But didn’t everyone know this about dogs?
| October 30, 2014 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
We breed dogs that are useful to us but come at the expense of survival skills.
The Demise of Science
| October 29, 2014 | Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design |
I’m reading Jim Baggott’s book, Farewell to Reality, which criticizes the direction that modern science is now taking. He wants to demonstrate what “real” science should look like, and what is instead catching the attention of modern physicists. I wrote about this sort of stuff over two years ago, at about the same time as […]
The world is changing: Someone noticed what “evolutionary science” has become, and laughed
| October 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
Like how would we know this “selfish gene baby football” from a supposedly plausible hypothesis?
Pope on evolution?
| October 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Naturalism, News, Religion |
Rousselle: Wait, what? The Church published an encyclical 64 years ago saying exactly what Pope Francis said yesterday? You don’t say!
Massimo Pigliucci takes no prisoners in his war on “denialism”
| October 29, 2014 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Oh wait. Rebuttal? But isn’t rebuttal a problem? Should you even be reading it?
Creationism conference: Either attend the event and write about it, or mind your own business.
| October 29, 2014 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Creationism, Culture, Intelligent Design, News |
So the officials mean that MSU is really a university and not just another tax-funded degree mill?
Chris Hadfield’s very best space photos
| October 29, 2014 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
After several winnowings. Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to walk in space. Took pictures.
Genes linked to murder: Great news for Magna Carta
| October 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Genetics, Intelligent Design, News |
By the way, haven’t we been here before? Didn’t we agree a while back that we would never eat lunch in this dump again?
Is Richard Dawkins inherently violent?
| October 28, 2014 | Posted by News under Atheism, Intelligent Design, News |
One wouldn’t ask except that he is always talking against everyone else as inherently violent.
Keith’s “Bomb” Defused & Debunked
| October 28, 2014 | Posted by William J Murray under Intelligent Design |
Even though keiths “bomb” has been defused and debunked in several ways, it has occurred to me that there is another major flaw in keiths argument. However, to reiterate the main debunking point: Barry Arrington asked for a “science bomb” that would demonstrate him wrong about what ID argues; keith’s “bomb” assumes the very thing […]
Slow but sure, the extinct snail turned up again
| October 28, 2014 | Posted by News under extinction, Intelligent Design, News, Peer review, speciation |
Some call these types of life forms “Lazarus species,” animals we thought were extinct. (One third apparently turn up again.)
From The Curious Wavefunction on the dangers of certainty in science
| October 28, 2014 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Science |
Actually, half the people who say they “stand for science” today would lose all interest in it if it didn’t happen to support their pet peeves, grievances, and crotchets.
Artificial intelligence is the devil? More dangerous than nukes?
| October 27, 2014 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, News |
Worst of all, he wants “regulatory oversight.” So those who can’t stop or fix the machine will spy on the rest of us instead?
