Calls for Random House to stop publishing his books? As if he were Michael Behe or something? Clearly, Darwinism is losing its cultural teflon.
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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
Girl’s parents are “two different species”?
Let’s just say, paleontologists need Neanderthals and Denisovans to be “different species.”
Jonathan Bartlett: Intelligent Design Is Not What Most People Think It Is
Bartlett: Thiel shows that the mind has unique powers which are not reducible to mechanism, and that by focusing our efforts in the direction that our minds are specially built for allows us to create more economic prosperity…
Asked at Quillette: Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
What to think? Well, Darwinism was the original Cancel Culture, as many reading this will know. For many decades, it was difficult or impossible to critique it from any perspective, no matter what the evidence. If social power alone wins, why not Indigenous creationism? Weiss and Springer will be lucky to come out of this with their careers intact.
Can octopuses really feel pain?
The brainy cephalopods behaved about the same as lab rats under similar conditions, raising both neuroscience and ethical issues.
An interview with Bill Dembski at Upper Room
Bill Dembski reflects and summarizes his work in intelligent design (ID), science and culture, and education. Dembski engages with some of the opposing views from his own blind spots and those of others.
Why trust in “science” is becoming unwise
In case you wondered: “China is also spending lavishly around the world to win supremacy in science — which includes becoming the biggest national sponsor of open access journals published by both Springer Nature and Elsevier, owner of The Lancet.”
At Mind Matters News: Do any dogs go to heaven? If so, why?
Neuroscientist Christof Koch was troubled as a child by the Catholic tradition that dogs like his beloved Purzel did not go to heaven. Ironically, human exceptionalism, which Koch decries, holds out the possibility that some beloved animals may indeed share immortality with humans.
Does quantum physics really mean there is no solid reality?
There is no reason to consider our perceptions to be illusions unless there is a more correct perception that we could have at the same level of resolution.
Gaps everywhere in the history of life
People who don’t like hearing about that so often resort to abuse because it’s like mentioning that the elephant in the room is not a stuffed toy.
At Big Think: What happened before the Big Bang?
What happened before anything happened? It’s a meaningless question within itself unless one posits a First Cause or God. Science, like an afghan, tends to fray at the edges.
Bees thrive by cloning selves as exact duplicates
“For the Cape honeybees, the cloning is perfectly in keeping with evolutionary theory, says Laurent Keller at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. ‘Evolution is just selecting what’s doing well at a given time.’” But wait. Did any evolution pundit claim that one bee cloning itself many millions of times (identical copies) would be an example of evolutionary fitness? If evolutionary fitness is whatever happens to “be doing well” at a given time, there is no theory. How does it differ from “whatever happens”?
Memories don’t stay put in neurons, they drift a lot
Textbooks did not tell most students that.
The latest from the journal Nature, of all places: An engineering theory of evolution
How long will it be before people discover?: Engineering without engineers, taken seriously, means — among other things — that the consciousness of engineers is an illusion. Otherwise, there is no design without intelligence.
Physicist: Fine tuning explains the ugliness of the Standard Model of the universe
Well, ugly is as ugly does. String theory sounds beautiful but unrealistic.