Wilcox: “Perhaps this could all be resolved if the scientific community simply agreed upon a definition for each rank, but there’s no consensus for that.” If modern biology began with “On the Origin of Species,” many may be willing to live with chaos to protect the sacred history.
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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
Can one apply the “Goldilocks Principle” of fine-tuning to DNA structure?
From what these researchers report, yes, one can definitely apply the principle. But then one must accept that biology shows evidence of design. “Just right” is rarely an accident.
A new bug for Darwin’s finches: Mating disrupted by parasite
The whole story leaves one wondering what role incidental factors played, over many centuries, in the constant, reversible micro-evolution of the once-iconic Darwin’s finches.
Cooking with starches 100 000 years ago and more
As cooks know, starches are much easier to keep and more versatile than meats. The article is noteworthy for not claiming that starches explain human brain development.
Darwinism must have bypassed Chernobyl
It seems that most post-Chernobyl animals “Don’t Look Any Different from Their Non-Chernobyl Counterparts. “
Cells from a billion years ago remarkably preserved
If researchers find cells in a really clear state of preservation, who will be surprised if it turns out that they are a lot like modern cells but somehow that fact doesn’t point to anything. Darwinism, after all, can just happen in the twinkling of an eye…
Why scientists tend to dismiss well-supported ideas that lie outside the paradigm
The problem is that people can come to think of approved stagnation as a duty and stagnating as a virtue. If a genius comes along, with new ideas, they have lost the habit of listening with expectation.
Is a 3-D printer alive?
Clearly, we have come a long way in thinking up new ways to explore the origin of life problem.
At one time, witchcraft was considered a Halloween hoot…
Wait till you catch one of the fashionable witches also fronting the idea that we should all trust science. You can at least enjoy a sense of the ridiculous.
But how can evolution be “wrong”?
As John Gray suggests. It’s important to know whether there is a “ghost in the human machine” vs. “crossed wires we cannot entangle” because the ghost may be acting badly. But evolution can’t go “badly wrong.” Ain’t no such animal.
J. P. Moreland reasons his way to evidence for the soul
To find peace, he had to think carefully about the difference between the evolutionary materialist account of the human being and what he was actually experiencing.
Michael Egnor: The cowardice of science organizations on when life begins
“Scientists who do understand and embrace the truth about the beginning of human life are generally too cowardly to press the issue. It’s an enormous scandal.”
J. P. Moreland on when it is right to reject “science”
For example, “The presence of a band of highly trained, academically qualified scholars with a good track record for publishing in top journals or with highly regarded book publishers, and who are unified in rejecting the view held by even a vast majority of the relevant experts. “
How life shaped Earth, with a hat tip to Lynn Margulis
Grinspoon argues that life helping shape Earth means that most planets will either be lush or dead. Maybe. David, find us one that isn’t dead and we promise to get back to you soon.
Journal Science wouldn’t publish failed replication of “liberal vs conservative” brain study
The researchers who cold not replicate that “conservatives’ brains are more attuned to threats” were dismissed by the AAAS journal Science with no reasonable explanation.