From Rachel Kaufman, National Geographic News (September 29, 2011): The planet Mercury is dotted with holes that appear to be unlike any other landform yet seen in the solar system, new pictures show. And just think, that little fryball is the last place you’d expect the unexpected, too …
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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
The gay squid makes the front page of the New York Times. And the faster-than-light neutrinos do not. Which means what?
That’s part of the reason that the Times’ circulation has been tanking for years.
Mysterious Denisovans were just us? In furs?
Beware of people who preach that common sense is a bad thing. Usually, they are promoting NON sense in its place.
A riposte, sort of, to that Doonesbury cartoon …
Here. A riposte to that Doonesbury cartoon. Yeah, over a year ago. But now that Einstein is down in flames (?), we decided to stop thinking that it even matters. Follow UD News at Twitter!
Biologos warming up to young earth creationism? Or Darwinists just don’t get intellectual freedom?
Listening to someone other than Jerry Coyne would be fun, even for Jerry Coyne.
Imagine a universe where Einstein could be wrong, …
Here, we still hold out hope that the faster-than-light neutrinos are an honest mistake. But the glory of real science is precisely that Einstein could be wrong.
People watch: Marxist philosopher starts to “get” religion
Philosophers in office too easily confuse the Life of Virtue with what the law can enforce.
The jaw-dropping brilliance of evolutionary psychology: Darwin explains wife-beating
Darwinism need only be proclaimed to be believed and embraced by adoring popular culture. Making sense is irrevelant.
What a scientist should be
One could listen to this person without enforced interest.
From the Animals ‘r just like us desk: Fish uses tools?
Smashing something against a rock is enterprising, but does not constitute using a tool.
History desk: Earliest known statement of the problem of evil, as an argument for atheism
And it’s still a big issue today, amazingly enough, in the discussion of design in nature.
Design theory fighting cancer
UD News staff are all veterans of many mid-life cancer funerals. Go ahead, Telic: Blow the cancer to hell.
This Doonesbury cartoon tells you all you need to know about the design vs. Darwinism controversies.
Except it only really tells you about the pathologies of Darwinists. Sad one.
A friend advises attending THIS conference – Cell Press takes a risk
The scope will be broad, giving the interested attendee a glimpse of epigenetics at both the molecular as well as the organism level.
A modest proposal for evolutionary biology students who are impressed with the “Shakespeare” simulation …
As one blogger put it, this is just Dawkin’s Weasel program all over again–comparing a partially completed solution to the final solution, and modifying only the parts that are wrong. Not a very random way of using those monkeys at all! Imagine taking an MedCat exam where the professor told you which multiple choice problems Read More…