In short, Darwinism is a crock but they can’t, of course, say that.
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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
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Rob Sheldon on the recent dark matter claims
Those [theories] that haven’t been disproven yet are the ones that are the least lumpy. Let’s just say that the data are consistent with there being no dark matter lumps at all.
Avi Loeb about Oumuamua: “Nature does not produce such things.”
Maybe some of us (yer news writer, for one) have been unkind to Avi Loeb, the Harvard astronomer who continues to insist that space debris Oumuamua is an extraterrestrial lightsail. Anyway, at 29:06 in this vid, Loeb says “nature does not produce such things.” We’re told Loeb is using a design filter like design theorist Read More…
At New Scientist: Specialized wings make house flies harder to swat
So much intelligence in nature. Why couldn’t some of it be organized to make them buzz off?
The mechanical forces that squeeze life into shape
At Nature: Yet the manner in which bodies and tissues take form remains “one of the most important, and still poorly understood, questions of our time”
Does gene flow really support Darwinian speciation?
Their results don’t seem to have supported classical Darwinism but they have a really hard time explaining that.
Researchers: Less dark matter than thought?
What if there isn’t any? Maybe we are pursing a phantom? Just a thought.
Another attempt to blame Earth’s habitability on chance
Researchers: Earth’s long-lasting habitability was therefore most likely a contingent rather than an inevitable outcome.
Massive horizontal gene transfer in plants
Researchers: This union of two different genomes, called allopolyploidization, is very interesting in evolutionary terms, as it leads to the formation of new plant species and is widespread in many plant groups. Many important crops, such as bread and durum wheat, oats, cotton, canola, coffee, and tobacco have such combined genomes from at least two crossed species.
Researchers: Grey camouflage works better than zebra stripes
The paper uses data from a game played by citizen scientists. We don’t really know for sure how lions would use the same data. But the story is apparently more complex than textbook Darwinism.
Darwinian time trees don’t really work
The article goes on to talk about refutations but so far it seems like a civilized discussion. That’s evidence that Darwinism is losing its chokehold on thought.
Reality is looming down on supersymmetry
In pop science media, supersymmetry has been one of the ideas that lead to support for a multiverse and all that. So, if it’s in trouble…
At Psychology Today: A critic speaks out on retractions as a form of censorship
Remember this shameful episode when faced with bureaucrats huffing “Trust the science!” It appears that the science doesn’t trust the science. And if not, why should anyone else?
Researchers: A pest snake can make itself into a lasso to climb
Either the snake is smarter than we think or there is more intelligence in nature than some suppose.