Well, “blebs” is a great new word, anyway.
Month: October 2014
Did a low oxygen level delay complex life on Earth?
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?
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
The theory has everything going for it but evidence. But today, why should that be a problem?
Enzymes use quantum tunnelling?
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?
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)?
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?
We breed dogs that are useful to us but come at the expense of survival skills.
The Demise of Science
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
Like how would we know this “selfish gene baby football” from a supposedly plausible hypothesis?
Pope on evolution?
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”
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.
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
After several winnowings. Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to walk in space. Took pictures.
Genes linked to murder: Great news for Magna Carta
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?