How do we get from that to physical stuff?
Author: News
Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
Self-important twit: “Science should leave Texas”
Interesting because life sciences firms seem to be starting up in Austin at a fair clip.
Cosmology: Hawking replaces God with hocus pocus
In our view, Hawking’s problem isn’t that he tried to do without God but that he tried to do without God AND philosophy at the same time. And ended up with hocus pocus.
Human evolution: More details about the proposed importance of cooking
” Cooking provided early humans with more energy, allowing for such energetically-costly evolutionary changes.”
Life from Mars to Earth idea to be tested by probe
One creature to be tested is the animal, tardigrade (water bear), which can survive temperatures approaching absolute zero …
Human evolution: Mental illness gave humanity an edge?
If one can’t find a convincing useful adaptation that explains human evolution, there is always a wide array of harmful ones to try out.
Extraterrestrial life: UFO fans assail White House, demand disclosure
It’s nonsense in itself, but what it tells us is worth considering.
Red dwarfs less alien to life? But none of this adds up to Them being Out There …
This theory hasn’t changed the status of any known exoplanets, but it’s ingenious.
Survival of the fittest: Is there really a battle raging among evolutionists over fitness?
We’re not sure whether any battle really is raging.
Crowdsourcing: A new way of finding solutions faster, using large amounts of data
O’Leary didn’t have hundred people over him in a dark-matter bureaucratic hierarchy, where even getting his solution considered would be 90% of the battle.
Malaria parasite present as early as 100 million years ago? Hung on ever since?
Which is interesting in the context of books like Mike Behe’s Edge of Evolution, which explore the limits of purely Darwinian change …
Neurosciences doomed to failure in their most ambitious claims – Theodore Dalrymple, physician
Actually, the claims seem ridiculous now, but we would not be unnecessarily discourteous.
So what’s been happening in the wake of the Large Hadron Collider’s general failure to produce exotic physics stuff?
Large Hadron Collider produced no exotic new stuff, so …
Deepak Chopra at HuffPost on Richard Dawkins: “Flirts with intellectual dishonesty”
“It falls short of the promise to tell us how we know what is really true.”
Via Huffington Post: Deepak Chopra vs. Leonard Mlodinow on science vs spirituality
Chopra has expressed an interest in design theory (though we are not clear what he knows about it), whereas Mlodinow and Hawking plump for materialist atheism.