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Is origin of the universe an “arcane matter”?

Atheist philosopher asks, it’s one thing to argue that the universe must be the product of some kind of intelligent agent; it’s quite something else to argue that this designer was all-knowing and omnipotent. Why is that a better hypothesis than that the designer was pretty smart but made a few mistakes? Read More ›

Science news release admits evidence for speciation “implicit in Charles Darwin’s work” is scarce

In short, it is unclear, even in this fairly straightforward case, that Darwinian speciation has actually occurred. Circumstances have been spotted under which it might be occurring. Of course, some perturbation in the landscape might blow it all away. Read More ›

Apparently, US Republicans (39%) doubt humans evolved from an earlier species of animals

but it turns out, most Democrats could not correctly answer both that the Earth goes around the Sun and that this takes a year. The two divergences are treated as if they are exactly the same, of course, and guess which gets the more publicity? Read More ›

Flash news!: 100 percent of our genome is identical to chimp genome ;)

Is the point of Mooney's claims to constantly diminish the claimed figure but never quite get there? All he is really diminishing is the apparent value of the genome as a source of information about life forms. If he never quite gets to 100%, he still has a story. Read More ›