2019
Early fossils may just be “chemical gardens”
VIDEO: Digital unwrapping and reading of the En Gedi OT scroll
News has posted on this recent technological development. It is worth taking a couple of minutes to watch the video describing and imaging what was done using AI technologies: Fascinating, what 3-d scanning can do. It also of course corroborates the known result from the main Dead Sea Scroll finds, that the OT text was faithfully transmitted to posterity from remote times. END PS: Chain of custody for the NT message and by extension its texts: PPS: HT NewScientist, a case of Lead-based ink pigment detected in a papyrus manuscript written in Greek uncials:
Rob Sheldon on a claim that the Big Bang did not happen
Science, miracles, and Benny Hinn
Biblical archeology gets a boost from AI
Near-death experiences challenge human senses
Jerry Coyne bashes the Templeton Foundation, based on new information
At The Scientist: No, we did not kill off the Neanderthals but maybe we helped
Question for readers: In a world where horizontal gene transfer is an important force, what becomes of Dawkins’s Selfish Gene?
The bacterial flagellar hook as a universal joint
So then maybe we ARE privileged observers
Once upon a time, scientists were allowed to think that Darwin might be wrong
EG vs objective reality (pivoting on distinct identity)
In a current thread frequent objector EG comments — and yes, I am catching up: KF and others talk about “objective” as being something that is unchangeable. For example, homosexuality is objectively wrong. Always was, always will be. This doesn’t change with the times. But you argue that my preference of ice cream flavor is also objectively true. If my preference for ice cream is objective, and changeable, then other objective things, like moral values, are also changeable. Nope. For one, what I have said about objectivity (or rather, what Wikipedia has been forced to admit against obvious ideological inclination) is: Objectivity is a philosophical concept of being true independently from individual subjectivity caused by perception, emotions, or imagination. A Read More ›