The language in the following paper is hilarious. Basically the researchers are saying “We know this looks like an engineered feedback control loop. We analyzed it and found it statistically impossible to have come about through a stochastic processs. But we will strenuously object to anyone calling it evidence of design.” ROFLMAO “Chakrabarti and Rabitz Read More…
Author: Dave S.
Doing Science Backwards?
I just read an Insights article in the July 2008 edition of Scientific American. In a nutshell, biochemist Jeremy Nicholson billed as one of the world’s foremost experts on the metabolome (the collection of chemicals in the body which are byproducts of metabolic processes) is screening thousands of individuals to establish baseline amounts of different Read More…
Forget about global warming again? Me too…
Easy enough to do when like true things that are real problems are happening. Nevertheless, we have a definite climate trend emerging – more and more climate scientists are admitting anthropogenic global warming is a bunch of crap. Read about some of them: Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof More goodies below Read More…
Lactose digestion in E. coli
Remember the big stir about Lenski’s 20 year experiment with E. coli where the bugs “evolved” the ability to digest lactose citrate and this was touted as overwhelming evidence of evolution? And remember our response that until the mechanism behind it was discovered that it might not be much “evolution” at all? As usual, we Read More…
Forget About Global Warming Again?
Yeah, me too. Amazing how fast a red herring gets pushed off the front page when there’s a real problem to talk about. But just to keep you updated a little I offer these: Boise gets earliest snow on record Valley shivers as winter weather makes a premature appearance and related to the global cooling Read More…
Bill Maher’s “Religulous” documentary a flop?
Bill Maher’s “Religulous” documentary mocking religion in the United States opening weekend box office revenues were 10% higher than “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”. Our atheist Darwinian friends proclaimed that Expelled was a flop. By that standard so is Religulous. Correction: That should read our atheist and theistic Darwinian friends… the common denominator is being in Read More…
Score one for Scientific Creationism ?!
In another venue where I participate this article published at arXiv, Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance, and previous articles from the same source published in recent months, is undergoing a lively discussion. In a nutshell, a couple of earth based research programs measuring the half lives of radioisotopes have a Read More…
Sir Roger Penrose: Scientific Heretic
A great article on the Big Bang and the Large Hadron Collider. The big bounce vs. the big bang Joseph Brean, National Post Published: Friday, October 03, 2008 WATERLOO, Ont.. — Among the crushing throng of physics enthusiasts who gathered this week for a lecture by Sir Roger Penrose, who is to the University of Read More…
Burning Down The House: Newly released video
I posted this a week or so ago but Universal and Warner shut it down for copyright infringement of the background music. It’s about the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and those involved. View the original with the great sound track by clicking here.
Fun With Google Trends – ID vs. Darwinism vs. Creationism
Blue: Intelligent Design; Red: Darwinian Evolution; Orange: Scientific Creationism; Green: Theological Evolution Any questions? Source: Google Trends Update: Due to whiny protesters who say Darwinian evolution isn’t fair, I shortened it to evolution. And just to be fair I shortened intelligent design to design.
Tree of Life Gets Stung by Jellyfish
In yet another unexpected finding from the world of comparative genomics a gene that gives a jellyfish its sting is found all over the place. All sorts of explanations are flung at it. Horizontal gene transfer, vertical gene transfer, and convergent evolution were all run up the flagpole to see which garners more salutes. 🙄 Read More…
Public Interest in Global Warming Evaporates
Source: Google Trends
New York Times Science Section on Boltzmann Brains
This NYT article came out just this past January 18th. It’s worth reading the whole thing which is much longer than the choice quotes below the fold. I hadn’t been aware there was greatly increased support for the Boltzmann Brain due to the discovery of dark energy. Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs? Snippage:
Possibilities – theoretical and practical
In a private forum I recently stated: “It is possible for Darwinian processes to generate life of any order of complexity.” In response I was asked: Where is the demonstration that “It’s possible for Darwinian processes to generate life of any order of complexity”? I composed the following in reply:
ID is not science because…
ID is ineligible for consideration as science because theories that allow for the possibility of forces outside of nature can’t be tested or falsified. In light of that let’s look at what Ernst Mayr had to say in the introduction that appears in “Origin of Species”, Harvard University Press edition, 1964, p. xii: In Darwin’s Read More…