Overall, one suspects that many researchers would rather explain the facts away than research them. That said, Fisher offers much interesting data.
Intelligent Design
For the first time, “No Religion” is the most popular choice for Americans
People who, forty years ago, would have cited the church their parents once attended as their “religion” now say “no religion.” That’s probably because, in current urban society, they no longer experience social penalties for being honest. It’s still a decline but to discuss it intelligently, we need to see clearly what it is a decline in.
Here’s a pop Darwin look at the origin of religion
At the BBC, a writer offers an explanation of the Christian practice of Communion, Darwinism-style. Along the way, he discovers that apes are spiritual.
Logic & First Principles, 18: What is time? (Thence, what of heat death? The proposed infinite past? Etc.?)
“What is time?” is a misleadingly simple question, one that soon surfaces many difficulties. That is, it is a philosophical issue: phil, being the study of hard big questions. However, it is clear that we need to ponder it here at UD at least at a basic level, if we are to examine relevant concerns […]
At Quillette: Is secular humanism a religion?
A key principle seems to be that “Humans are not exceptional” (despite the evidence). The main prophets of the religion would appear to be legacy mainstream media.
New film: What if a Neanderthal were alive today?
A critic finds that the show has unexpected depth.
Do science hero stories stand in the way of progress?
Sabine Hossenfelder thinks that in fundamental physics the problem is not a shortage of smart people but a shortage of smart people who grasp that they are simply “wheels in the machinery.”
Smithsonian belatedly asks, What do we really know about Neanderthals?
What do we know? Well, we know what the science establishment has told us, that’s what. Previously, the science establishment spent a lot of time looking for the Darwinians’ subhumans. At all times, thin on the ground, it would seem. So they drafted the Neanderthals because, well, they were there. Now it seems, they have discharged them.
Breaking: Common sense statements about human vs animal intelligence
In a respectable venue. That’s so rare now. Noticing actual differences is radical in an age when politically correct nonsense is a form of virtue.
Gunter Bechly: New human find in the Philippines = New headache for Darwinism
Bechly also critiques something said here at Uncommon Descent by J.R. Miller of More Than Cake.
Have quantum physics’ problems been disgracefully swept under the carpet?
Possibly, but maybe it’s inherently fuzzy. Meanwhile, an update on Adam Becker’s attack on Inference Review as an ID-friendly rag; Peter Woit and Sabine Hossenfelder weigh in.
Replicating Machine Contest
I plan to award a prize to anyone who can invent a non-trivial 3D machine which can replicate itself. The machine must be able to make copies of itself without human intervention, except possibly to supply the raw materials. Basically a 3D printer which can print a copy of itself which retains the ability to […]
Globally famous chemist James Tour on the origin of life
Talk: What if the discoveries of science actually lend support to belief in God?
Jay Richards: In an information economy, the human person will be at the very center
Just the sheer hype from the AI rules! proponents alone should warn us to listen to a different perspective.
Researcher: Finding helium hydride today confirms its presence from within 100,000 years of the Big Bang
Compared to evidence-free claims about the multiverse, news about the filling in of the missing pieces of Big Bang cosmology attracts little attention. Could that be because, however well-attested, the Big Bang is unpopular among cosmologists? (Due, we are told, to its apparent theistic implications.)