Intelligent Design
Jerry Coyne bashes the Templeton Foundation, based on new information
At The Scientist: No, we did not kill off the Neanderthals but maybe we helped
Question for readers: In a world where horizontal gene transfer is an important force, what becomes of Dawkins’s Selfish Gene?
The bacterial flagellar hook as a universal joint
So then maybe we ARE privileged observers
Once upon a time, scientists were allowed to think that Darwin might be wrong
In this version, we did NOT kill off the Neanderthals
Researchers: Animal embryos evolved before animals
Those Neanderthals were always too dumb to know how dumb we needed them to be
Talk about hope springing eternal: 2020 for our history-making alien life find?
Some dinos replaced their teeth multiple times a year
Claim: Many types of human were kayoed in the Sixth Great Extinction
Sev and Ed Respond to Upright Biped (and Fail Spectacularly)
Ed George asserted that morality is based on societal consensus. Upright Biped utterly demolished that argument. See here. Seversky and Ed tried to respond to UB’s arguments. Let’s start with Sev: I, like everyone else here, would also want [the rape] to stop. Why? I should not have to say this but it is because we can imagine her suffering and know that it is not something we would like to experience nor would we want to see it inflicted on anyone else. It’s called empathy and its derived principle of the Golden Rule which, in my view, is more than sufficient grounds for morality. This is a muddled mashup of two of the materialists’ favorite dodges. First Sev appeals Read More ›