Monthly Archives: September 2015
Jerry “Why evolution is true” Coyne is retiring
| September 30, 2015 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology, News |
From UNZ, alternative media: The Jerry Coyne Retirement Jerry Coyne, an eminent evolutionary geneticist and all around public intellectual, is retiring, and has posted a bitter sweet and hopeful farewell letter to his conventional scientific career. For the general public Coyne is probably more famous as a New Atheist, though Coyne is actually a vocal […]
Homo naledi hype questioned
| September 30, 2015 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
From Casey Luskin at Christian Post:: Hominid Hype and Homo Naledi: Did Scientists Really Discover a Human Ancestor? Indeed, just four years ago Australopithecus sediba — also discovered and promoted by Berger — was the transitional form du jure between the australopithecines and our own genus Homo. Yet sediba had a very different set of […]
Lydia McGrew nails it: Does being an atheist interfere with being moral?
| September 30, 2015 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Over at What’s Wrong with the World, Dr. Lydia McGrew has written a short article that nails the reason why atheists are liable to err on moral matters. The article, titled, Does being an atheist interfere with being moral? (September 22, 2015), identifies metaphysical naturalism (which views the world as the sum total of what […]
Science truth subjected to vote?
| September 30, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
From Should Scientific Truth Be Subjected to a Vote?: Those who promulgate the rhetoric of consensus rightly want to preserve the integrity of science in the eyes of the public. The empirical, precise, and collaborative method of natural science remains – despite the current reproducibility crisis – our most reliable source for knowledge about the […]
Who chooses these titles? The Scientist on the ear
| September 30, 2015 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
From The Scientist:: The form and function of the ears of modern land vertebrates cannot be understood without knowing how they evolved. Excuse me, excuse me, we can know everything there is to know about hearing today simply from examining life forms today. Darwinism forces on people the belief that they must know about the […]
Cryonics as false science?
| September 30, 2015 | Posted by News under News |
Okay, okay, not directly our thing, but I am just gearing up here again: The False Science of Cryonics No one who has experienced the disbelief of losing a loved one can help but sympathize with someone who pays $80,000 to freeze their brain. But reanimation or simulation is an abjectly false hope that is […]
Devastating take-down of Bill Nye, the science guy
| September 29, 2015 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Jurisprudence Professor Robert George and bioethicist Patrick Lee have written a devastating take-down of Bill Nye in an article for National Review titled, Back to Science Class for the Science Guy, after Nye published a video on YouTube, claiming to tell us what science says about abortion. As take-downs go, this one is about as […]
Dr. No on evolution
| September 29, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Okay, this is the last thing I (O’Leary for News) have to say on the subject of doctors and evolution, and fitness for public office: Once, about forty years ago, one of my kids was hit on the head by a car. She was taken immediately to the local ER. I flagged down a cruiser […]
On Dr Ben Carson, the Devil, science vs medicine and saving life
| September 29, 2015 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Ethics, Neuroscience, Politics/policy and origins issues, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society |
I passed by and noted a dismissive comment (or a few) regarding US Presidential candidate, retired neurosurgeon Dr Ben Carson: CASE A: he’s running for President of the United States of America; he’s a politician who’s put religion and science into his platform. He willingly exposed himself to criticism and does not deserve a pass […]
Metaphysics From John Ray to Nima Arkani-Hamed
| September 29, 2015 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
When John Ray refused to conform to the 1662 Act of Uniformity—aimed mainly at the Puritans—and so was forced to leave his position at Cambridge University, he roamed Europe for three years doing what he loved: observing nature. Ray and his companions were in for a surprise: unfathomable diversity. They found thousands of different kinds […]
Why does anyone care what any US Prez thinks about evolution?
| September 29, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
Why does anyone care what any US Prez thinks about evolution? If it is really a science topic, shouldn’t it be like the Large Hadron Collider or Pluto’s geography? So how is it the Prez’s business? Why ask him in particular? Doesn’t he mainly deal with domestic and foreign crises? I first wondered about this […]
Idiocy from Media Matters, some disgraceful US outfit, Ben Carson edition
| September 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism |
Ben Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon, saved children’s lives. Here is a typical Darwin follower’s’ response, demanding worship of their idol: So imagine it’s 1970 or so, and you’re young Ben Carson, sitting in a biology class at Yale University. With your sharp mind and strong study habits, you don’t have much problem understanding the material, grasping […]
Trilobite caught in act of molting
| September 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
From 365 Million-Year-Old Fossil Catches Trilobite in the Act of Molting: In shedding it’s armored exoskeleton, the fossilized creature was molting. Molting is without a doubt one of nature’s most incredible acts. Every so often, certain creatures cast off parts of their bodies in a process of biological renewal. Cats and dogs do it with […]
Test parallel universes for real?
| September 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
Some claim we can. We are told, It is important to keep in mind that the multiverse view is not actually a theory, it is rather a consequence of our current understanding of theoretical physics. This distinction is crucial. We have not waved our hands and said: “Let there be a multiverse”. Instead the idea […]
New Scientist on the need to “hack” our morals
| September 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Mind, News |
Here. Gut reactions guide our judgements and behaviour, but those reactions, developed over millions of years of living in small groups, aren’t up to the grand challenges that face us in an interconnected world of billions of people. On the road ahead, this is a recipe for tyranny everywhere: Traditional moral instincts don’t work; we […]
We are told some fish look after their mates
| September 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Animal minds, News |
From ScienceDaily: New research from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University has found that pairs of rabbitfishes will cooperate and support each other while feeding. While such behaviour has been documented for highly social birds and mammals, it has previously been believed to be impossible for fishes. “We […]
What’s wrong with “harm done to the environment is harm done to humanity”?
| September 27, 2015 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
While it is doubtful whether Pope Francis’ speech to the United Nations actually ascribed rights to Nature, the Pope clearly denied that humans have the right to harm Nature: doing so harms humanity, he said. I believe this kind of thinking is dangerous for two reasons: it ignores the lessons of history and it will […]
Neanderthals capture birds. Big mystery!
| September 27, 2015 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
You know, separate human species and all that. From BBC News: The conventional wisdom had been that Neanderthals did not have the capacities or technology that allowed them to capture fast-moving prey. Why was that the conventional wisdom? Does it not belong to an anthropology that is utterly without evidence and should be classified as […]
Stealth dark matter?
| September 27, 2015 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
Sounds like science fiction. But from ScienceDaily: New theory of stealth dark matter may explain universe’s missing mass A group of national particle physicists known as the Lattice Strong Dynamics Collaboration, led by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory team, has combined theoretical and computational physics techniques and used the Laboratory’s massively parallel 2-petaflop Vulcan supercomputer […]
Evolution’s Junk Science at the University of Maine
| September 27, 2015 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Thinking about taking CHY 431—Structure and Mechanism in Biological Chemistry next semester at the University of Maine? If so you likely will be fed junk evolutionary science like this page: Read more
