Stuart Burgess: “I’ve been astounded at the performance of human joints.”
Intelligent Design
The Drake Equation and Extraterrestrial Life
“It’s becoming increasingly clear that truly habitable planets are likely to be exceedingly rare among the stars in our galaxy.”
At Mind Matters News: Sabine Hossenfelder asks, is the multiverse science or religion?
Introducing her new book, Existential Physics, Hossenfelder makes a strong case that the multiverse is not right or wrong; it’s fun but not really science.
Human Skeletal Joints as Masterpieces of Engineering
Hat tip: Philip Cunningham
At City Journal: In science today, correctness openly trumps truth
Irrespective of evidence, if people don’t like what’s being said about them — and they are a perceived victim group — it’s not science. Well, at least we know how science will end: As a public relations agency!
Royal Society lecturer says what Richard Weikart has been saying for years?
Weikart has written a number of books in his long academic career on the links between Darwinism and malign social trends like elitism and racism.
At Mind Matters News: Philosopher: I’m neither me, myself nor I… Yet I give interviews!
Egnor: If Metzinger is an evanescent process without substantial enduring reality, does he refuse to pick up his paycheck? How real is “not part of reality” here?
When progressivism hit the science journals…
Wesley J. Smith: Science isn’t about politics, opinion polls, or subjective opinions. It is supposed to be about adducing facts about the natural world and applying them. Whether to permit, outlaw, or regulate abortion isn’t a question that science can answer.
At Mind Matters News: Yes, plants may be conscious too, says researcher
It’s not so much that consciousness in plants is being demonstrated as that what it means to be conscious is changing so as to include plants.
L&FP 58: Knowledge (including scientific knowledge) is not a simple concept
. . . as a result of which, once there is an issue, complex questions and limitations of the philosophy of knowledge — Epistemology — emerge. Where, in particular, no scientific theory can be even morally certain. (Yes, as Newtonian Dynamics illustrates, they can be highly empirically reliable in a given gamut of circumstances . Read More…
At Astronomy Now: Frank Drake, SETI pioneer, 1930–2022
Frank Drake, the radio astronomer who pioneered the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), died yesterday (2 September) at the age of 92. Born on 28 May 1930 in Chicago, Drake was working at the Green Bank Radio Telescope during the early days of radio astronomy, in the late 1950s, when he was inspired by Giuseppe Read More…
Evolution News reports on The Electric Cell: More Synergy with Physics Found in Cellular Coding
The significant takeaway is that new research is discovering profound layers of complexity in cellular function that confounds the assumption of unguided interatomic forces as responsible for life.
At Sci News: Brasilodon is Earliest Known Mammal, New Research Shows
“Dated at 225.42 million years old, [Brasilodon] is the oldest known mammal in the fossil record”
At Phys.org: New breakthrough pushes perovskite cell to greater stability, efficiency
“NREL-led breakthrough pushes perovskite cell to greater stability, efficiency.”
At Phys.org: Discovery of new types of microfossils may answer age-old scientific question
“Scientists have long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes occurred. A collaborative research team from Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo may have provided some answers after discovering new types of microfossils dating 1.9 billion years.”