Collectively, they are, um, dumb. After a while, one gets plumb tired of it. From Graham Lawton at New Scientist: IT COST more than $13 billion and took 14 years, but eventually, as expected, God showed up. The joy and relief were immense. That was in 2012, and the evidence has only become stronger. Disbelief Read More…
Month: October 2016
Hugh Ross: Worldview implications of gravitational waves
From Hugh Ross at Salvo: With access to gravitational waves emanating from both medium-sized and supermassive black hole binaries, astronomers will be able to explore new properties of gravity and general relativity. They will be able to determine in much more detail the formation histories of both stars and galaxies in the universe. These advances Read More…
Science writer John Farrell gets BioLogos right
Cleaning out the in tray here, and came across this from science writer John Farrell, a while back, at Forbes, on evangelicals (BioLogos types) “coming out” for Darwin in a recent book: While I appreciate the candor in There is more to the challenge of evolution than just accepting the age of the universe and that Read More…
Understanding of dark matter muddier due to new findings?
From Charles Q. Choi at Inside Science News: Now researchers examining 153 galaxies find that by looking solely at where stars and gases in those galaxies are located, they could precisely predict the anomalous ways in which they moved. This may hint that dark matter is more strongly coupled to normal matter than currently thought. Read More…
Opposition to Galileo based on science, not just religion?
One wouldn’t think anyone had to point that out, but physicist Christopher Graney does a good job at Aeon: … Yes, [an opponent] said, a moving Earth messes with certain Biblical passages, like Joshua telling the Sun to stand still. But it also messes with certain astronomical terms, such as sunrise and sunset. Copernicans had Read More…
Latest: Was the exposed Piltdown Man fraudster framed?
So thinks Francis Thackeray at RealClearScience: Dawson’s role in the Piltdown Man hoax appears to have been confirmed in 2016 by palaeo-anthropologist Dr Isabelle de Groote and her colleagues. High-tech forensic analyses led them to conclude that only a single hoaxer, presumably Dawson, was responsible. The case seems closed. But is it? Yes, everyone is Read More…
New theory links flow of time with Big Bang
From ScienceDaily, re UC Berkeley’s Richard Muller’s new book NOW: The Physics of Time (W. W. Norton) Ever since the Big Bang explosively set off the expansion of the universe 13.8 billion years ago, the cosmos has been growing, something physicists can measure as the Hubble expansion. They don’t think of it as stars flying Read More…
What happens when animals go back to the wild?
Well, not “evolution,” even though it must be marketed that way. From ScienceDaily: For many thousands of years, humans have bred dogs, goats, chickens and other animals to make them suitable for use as domestic animals, in a process known as domestication. Humans have selected the individuals that possess desirable traits and bred them Read More…
RNA and DNA arose at the same time?
A new theory, via Phys.org: “Even if you believe in a RNA-only world, you have to believe in something that existed with RNA to help it move forward,” said Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, associate professor of chemistry at TSRI and senior author of the new study. “Why not think of RNA and DNA rising together, rather than Read More…