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Human face evolved due to punches?
City Journal addresses the “Nicholas Wade reinvents Darwinian racism” story
What, minion, you thought you could judge for yourself?
A writer for The Atlantic hopes intelligent design is going out of fashion
Tyson truth time: Guy is not a philosopher
If a coyote ate his grandma, would it matter?
Karl Giberson admits person with tail photo faked
Here. By the way, does anyone in the world realize? The scariest story I ever heard as a child was when some Norwegian Peer Gynt was offered a tail (which meant he would become a troll). In the version I heard, the troll king offered Peer his best Sunday tail but Peer was saved when his aged mother and another woman actually climbed the church belfry and set the bells ringing through all the mountain valleys. So the trolls fled underground. Do they sell that in a can now? No-Troll[TM]? Seriously, the whole idea is just folklore. – O’Leary for News
Is Lamarckism better suited to Christianity than Darwinism?
Discuss.
Claim: Rats show regret
Science cannot in principle explain how an intelligent designer can create
From Britain’s foremost Christian Darwinist, Denis Alexander
Increasing suppression of dissent
Multiverse promotion continues despite a minor no-evidence setback
From Peter Woit Multiverse promotion continues apace, with Steinhardt one of a rather small number of physicists publicly objecting. On Monday Alexander Vilenkin will explain to the public at the American Museum of Natural History that “the Big Bang was not a unique event in cosmic history and that other Big Bangs constantly erupt in remote parts of the universe, producing new worlds with a great variety of physical properties” (see here). A recent story on livescience has Brian Greene on the multiverse. Over at Massimo Pigliucci’s Scientia Salon Coel Hellier is starting a multipart series arguing against multiverse skeptics with The multiverse as a scientific concept — part I. Nothing in Part I about the problematic issues (untestable claims Read More ›