Steve Williams: Can you say “intractable problem”?
Month: February 2015
Darwin event at museum scuttled when some engineers ask for equal time for ID
Honouring Darwin’s “remarkable impact on biology, cosmology, and the scientific process. Cosmology too, eh? Like we thought. Religion!
Lecture: Bacterial cell walls, antibiotics and the origins of life
Many bacteria can switch to a cell wall deficient “L-form” state, completely resistant to many antibiotics, possibly unnoticed by our immune systems.
Essay contest: “Do Life and Living Forms present a problem for materialism?”
From the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Cambridge University Press
Podcasts: Physicist John Bloom on the Big Bang, fine-tuning of the universe, and design-friendly views in physics
The Big Bang and fine-tuning are not challenged fr lack of evidence but because they are unpopular evidence.
It’s Just Getting Worse: Our Retina Structure is “optimized for our vision purposes”
Research out of Israel continues to hammer away at the once powerful proof text for evolution, that our retina is one big kludge given that the photocells were obviously installed backwards. Not only that, but to add insult to injury, the resulting neuron wire bundle had to go somewhere, and the result was a blind spot in […]
Study documents the rise of authoritarianism in science
News here has noticed the trend, and also the growing impatience with the traditional rules of science that constrain their fantasies.
Further to Oops. Be careful when you say “I trust scientists” …
MSM hacks have zero interest in science as such. If they did, they would be all over any number of “science-based” scams and the ongoing scandal of peer review.
RDM’s challenge to naturalistic hyperskeptics regarding THEIR “extraordinary claims”
NB: RDM paper, here In the current VJT discussion thread on What Evidence is, RD Miksa asks a telling question (slightly adjusted for readability) of naturalistic hyperskeptics: RDM, 25: . . . the ironic thing to note in terms of comments from the anti-super-naturalist side is how they fail to realize that their very own […]
Why atheists can’t show that Ken Ham is wrong
Professor Jerry Coyne has written a post titled, Ken Ham vs. Dawkins: On the nature of science and physical law, in which he criticizes Ken Ham’s claim that evolution is a “historical” science, dealing with events that can’t be observed, and hence can’t be verified. Coyne contends that “there is no distinction between historical science […]
Chemist Harry Lonsdale and the secret of life
The metaphysical naturalist basis of his quest may have precluded his examining the “cash value” of Darwinism in the project.
New theory as to why matter predominates over antimatter
Researchers: The asymmetry may have been produced as a result of the motion of the Higgs field
Oops. Be careful when you say “I trust scientists” …
Someone might hear you. Wonder how YOU could possibly mean that.
Scott Walker says most people don’t care about the issues media obsess over
They need to create the impression that Walker must be a dunce if he doesn’t “believe” whatever studio blowdrys “believe” about evolution.
Do demoralized arts faculty affect the ID controversy?
Yes, because the mood is seeping into the sciences. A full professor now claims not to know what evidence is.