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Arch-Darwinist Richard Dawkins defends feminism from itself
“Science denial,” politics, and religion, from a highly politicized science journalist
A friend writes to mention a book about an atheist who became a Catholic
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and Bayesian priors
Leon Wieseltier on letting the intellectuals decide everything
Humans were never perfectly in synch with our environment?
South China Morning Post challenges Darwin’s theory?
No, really, this is what their headline reads (if not redacted): “Chinese microscopic fossil find challenges Darwin’s theory” Apparently, they are allowed to talk that way in China. Fancy. The Cambria explosion proved that most major animal phyla were fully developed in this relatively short time. This troubled Darwin because the absence of transitional forms has always been problematic for his theory. Darwin had hoped that these intermediates would appear in the fossil record but this has not happened. Evolutionists say that these “missing links” were either too small or too soft-bodied to be fossilised in the pre-Cambrian layer. What is more troubling for Darwin’s theory is the Chinese discovery of microscopic fossils of soft sponge embryos in this pre-Cambrian Read More ›