Coyne: What they’d get would be a genetic chimera, an almost entirely Asian elephant but one that is hairier, chunkier, and more tolerant of cold. That is NOT a woolly mammoth, nor would it behave like a woolly mammoth, for they’re not inserting behavior genes.
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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
Science Uprising: The Big Bang: Something from Nothing is here
Klinghoffer: In some ways, this is a quick take on the most novel arguments in Stephen Meyer’s recent book, The Return of the God Hypothesis , but presented in a very different way.
When people claim that “the science” says this or that…
Discussing the recent essay by medical statistician John Ioannidis on the was politicization and shoddy research around COVID-19 are corrupting science, philosopher Edward Feser focuses on a couple of his points, including this one, “the deleterious role that social media have played.”
World’s oldest art raises question: Is it art?
Researchers would not be asking if it is art if it were not so old (between 169,000 and 226,000). The underlying assumption seems to be that humans did not think imaginatively in those days. The evidence seems to contradict the evolutionary assumption.
At Stat News: Science has got obesity all wrong
A science writer reflects on the way paradigms work. If he’s right, a popular paradigm it was dangerous to doubt will come under fire.
Life on Mars? Maybe it’ll happen when the first humans arrive…
In a most informative article, David. F. Coppedge contrasts known facts as to why Mars might be lifeless with science writing that relentlessly attempts to paint it as hopeful.
Here’s an interview with Michael Denton on the history and future of ID
Biochemist Michael Denton is one of the earliest figures in the current era to question conventional Darwinism.
Was Thomas Henry Huxley the first science journalist?
What Huxley was marketing was not a correct analysis of the cause of the plague but one that promoted materialism. Today, for example, we constantly hear similar stuff like – just for example – “science is closing in on the human mind” or “apes think like people.” They can’t help it, of course, but Huxley’s career might help us understand better how it got started.
At Mind Matters News: New theory of mind offers more information, less materialism
First, let’s begin by noting a remarkable fact: Panpsychism seems to have triumphed in the area of theories of consciousness.
Crowd-funded faith-based nature documentary hopes to offer an alternative to traditional atheist approach
Toto: Perhaps the most important poll finding was that 84% of those willing to invest in new TV shows believe that God created the earth.
A new open access paper offers an approach to cancer that sees past Darwin
Researchers: Although neo-Darwinian (and less often Lamarckian) dynamics are regularly invoked to interpret cancer’s multifarious molecular profiles, they shine little light on how tumorigenesis unfolds and often fail to fully capture the frequency and breadth of resistance mechanisms.
At Mind Matters News: The final materialist quest: A war on the reality of the mind
When George Orwell wrote 1984, he addressed destroying minds, not denying their possibility and changing the language associated with them.
Why are eggs shaped the way they are?
The egg has been called the “perfect shape.”
What Steven Weinberg’s “pointless universe” really meant
What it really meant was permission to ignore the significance of the fine-tuning of the universe and of Earth for life. It really amounts to saying that evidence does not matter any more.
Can it really be called science if it is purely theoretical?
Isn’t this origin-of-life speculation more like science fiction than like science?