Intelligent Design
Something else to worry about?: Viruses stealing our genes
Coming to grips with specified complexity
Scientists have listed every place aliens could be hiding?
At LiveScience: How our eyes move in perfect synchrony
Explained: To prevent double vision, the brain exploits a feedback system, which it uses to finely tune the lengths of the muscles controlling the eyes. This produces phenomenally precise eye movements, Guyton said. Each eye has six muscles regulating its movement in different directions, and each one of those muscles must be triggered simultaneously in both eyes for them to move in unison, according to a 2005 review in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. “It’s actually quite amazing when you think about it,” Guyton told Live Science. Bemjamin Plackett, “Why eyes move together” at LiveScience Hat tip: Philip Cunningham
The modern human mind evolved so far back it met itself in the parking lot?
Bill Dembski offers an introduction to Thomas Reid’s Lectures on Natural Theology
Feminized men and the problem of social unrest
There are few things more disgusting than a morally weak man who will pay any price to avoid making enemies. He is so worried about how he is perceived that he cannot be trusted to make sound judgments in any moral conflict. Almost always, he takes a knee when he should be standing firm; almost always, he gives up ground that he should be holding. If only he would realize that a pound of early resistance is worth a ton of counter revolutionary warfare. Of course, he doesn’t get the point because his main concern is to remain popular with the people who are supposed to matter. Consider a contemporary social problem. Violent mobs are destroying parts of cities, tearing Read More ›
At Nature: Bold push for a supercollider. But has the age for this sort of thing passed?
Science vs pseudoscience? – Sabine Hossenfelder edition
A fourth law of thermodynamics as nature’s steepest entropy ascent?
Finding: Planets with oceans are common in the galaxy
Another recipe for the origin of life
Why Evolution is Different
My final contribution to the ID debate:
To the Barbarians Who Toppled George Washington’s Statue:
You live in the country that Washington founded. Did he found it single-handedly? No, but he was the indispensable man. His efforts were not alone sufficient, but they were necessary, and without him there would have been no founding. Every single person in this country owes him an eternal debt of gratitude for the indispensable role he played in founding a country that, while far from perfect, would in the fullness of time become the greatest nation that has ever existed in the history of the planet. 244 years later you people stand on his shoulders. And from that vantage you shit on him because he was not perfect and failed to found a leftist egalitarian utopia. Your ingratitude is Read More ›