They solve all kinds of problems we are still working on.
Intelligent Design
People with too little to do worry about “privilege” in the animal world
Stiles: The experts began searching for examples in the animal kingdom of human concepts such as privilege, inequality, and intergenerational wealth.
At Evolution News: Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” (of flowers)
Lönnig: “the figure below shows that Darwin’s “abominable mystery” has become even more “abominable” and “mysterious” during the last 50 (not to speak of the last 150) years. “
At Mind Matters News: Did the octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye?
It’s an interesting fact that intelligence in animals is not nearly as firmly fixed in a hierarchy of evolution as we used to believe. Octopuses are extreme outliers and we are only just beginning to get to know them.
Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is getting mugged by reality
All: Unplug the TV. Those people can no longer afford to be friends of truth in any meaningful sense. That includes anything to do with evolution controversies.
Remember how endless cycles of universe were supposed to show that the universe has no real beginning?
While we are here, wouldn’t an infinite universe include the possibility that it doesn’t exist? Playing with infinity is playing a dangerous game.
Cosmic social distancing: Our region of the universe floats in a void
The researchers think that star formation happens mainly at the perimeter (conveniently, one might add).
Good question: Why do atheists reason so poorly?
They’re not just The Party of Reason, really. They’re the Party of Science-and-Reason. The hyphens signify the way atheists treat them as joined at the hip.
If there is a secret math in sand megaripples…
Is this not evidence of fundamental design in nature?
Are Mutations Really Random?
That is the question they are asking over at Science Friday. Now, scientists are questioning whether that’s actually true—or if mutation is more likely to occur in some parts of the genome than others. New research published in the journal Nature this week looks at just that question, in a common weed called Arabidopsis thaliana. After following 24 generations of plants Read More…
A Case of Bad Timing
WARNING! The video linked here is extremely disturbing. Four days ago Alexis Avila, a woman in New Mexico, had a baby. She put the baby in a garbage bag and threw him in a dumpster. She is being charged with attempted murder. The good news is that a passerby found the baby (umbilical cord still Read More…
At BigThink, an author tries to decide between science and pseudoscience
Gordin (in an excerpt from his book): When nonmainstream doctrines pose a threat (real or imagined) to professional scientists, the term pseudoscience gets bandied about.
How small was the universe when the Big Bang started?
Ethan Siegel offers an opinion at Forbes: No matter how tempting it may be to think that the Universe arose from a singular point of infinite temperature and density, and that all of space and time emerged from that starting point, we cannot responsibly make that extrapolation and still be consistent with the observations that Read More…
Richard Dawkins takes a risk: Sex is binary
Dawkins: With negligible exceptions, on the other hand, you can unwaveringly identify a person’s sex at a glance, especially if they remove their clothes. Sex is pretty damn binary.
At The Conversation: How could the Big Bang arise from nothing?
Wait. There is a simpler explanation: In the beginning, the Lord created the heavens and the earth.