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Apparently, scientists are the only ones exempt from the fact that we evolved to have biases…

When science becomes a substitute for religion or philosophy, it must bear the weight of being a certain kind of truth. The trouble is, science isn’t that kind of truth.

Posted on July 23, 2022July 23, 2022 Author News Comments(82)
Culture DNA Intelligent Design Science

Another, more nuanced, look at the Rosalind Franklin story

We’ve all heard the story, probably: That Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) should have shared the Nobel Prize for the double helix with Francis Crick (1916–2004) and James Watson. Science writer Nicholas Wade has gone into the story in considerable detail and finds to be much more complex.

Posted on July 23, 2022 Author News Comments(3)
Culture Intelligent Design Philosophy Science

At Mind Matters News: Researchers: Distrust of science is due to tribal loyalty

There seems to be no recognition that researchers, however fiercely competitive among themselves, also have a tribal loyalty that skews their judgment.

Posted on July 23, 2022July 23, 2022 Author News Comments(119)
Earth's habitability Intelligent Design

At Phys.org: Astronomer suggests it is time to look for near-Earth asteroids in the direction of the sun

We can be thankful that we live in a window of time that has been free from major asteroid impact disasters.

Posted on July 23, 2022July 23, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(11)
Human significance Intelligent Design Purpose of life

At Aeon: You’re astonishing! Life can be better appreciated when you remember how wonderfully and frighteningly unlikely it is that you exist at all

“Life can be better appreciated when you remember how wonderfully and frighteningly unlikely it is that you exist at all”

Posted on July 22, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(6)
'Junk DNA' Intelligent Design Neuroscience

At Mind Matters News: Jumping genes … a new clue to octopus intelligence?

Formerly thought of as “junk DNA,” their mobility may help explain unique problem-solving abilities. “I literally jumped on the chair…” one researcher said.

Posted on July 21, 2022 Author News Comment(0)
'Junk DNA' Intelligent Design

New distinctions help accommodate researchers to the usefulness of “junk DNA”

Researchers: With the special case of junk DNA in mind, we explore how to model and understand the causal specificity, reach, and corresponding efficacy of difference makers in biology.

Posted on July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 Author News Comments(3)
Intelligent Design Mind Neuroscience

How does a human being thrive normally with “quite a bit” of brain missing?

Suppose a man said, “I am one of a really small minority of people who fell twenty thousand feet from a plane and survived, despite my injuries…” We’d want to know more.

Posted on July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 Author News Comment(0)
Embryology Intelligent Design

New paper: Different vertebrate classes arise in “radically diverse ways”

That’s inconvenient if one is arguing for common ancestry of vertebrates.

Posted on July 21, 2022July 22, 2022 Author News Comments(5)
Evolution Intelligent Design

At Live Science: Scientists pinpoint the exact moment in evolutionary time when mammals became warm-blooded

“Scientists have pinpointed the moment in time our earliest ancestors evolved to be warm-blooded, and it happened much later and far more quickly than the researchers expected.”

Posted on July 20, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(22)
COVID-19 vaccines Culture Intelligent Design Philosophy Science

At Mind Matters News: Researchers: If we tell folks more about science, they trust less

Generally, the remedy for loss of trust after widespread failures is reform of the system, not reform of its doubters. Post-COVID, scientists should take heed.

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Author News Comments(68)
Culture Intelligent Design Science

Cancel Culture comes for the James Webb Space Telescope

If we’re so lucky that the Woke promise to boycott science altogether and picket NASA instead, we accept their offer!

Posted on July 20, 2022 Author News Comment(0)
Intelligent Design Mathematics

At Mind Matters News: Recent research: Imaginary numbers are part of the real world

Takehome: Perhaps the universe is bound to seem mysterious, in part because it is not wholly material. It keeps the rules but the rules are not always what we expect.

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Author News Comments(3)
Evolutionary biology Intelligent Design Origin Of Life

At Live Science: ‘Unlucky’ creatures that enter rare Red Sea brine pools are immediately stunned to death

Researcher: “Deep-sea brine pools are a great analog for the early Earth and, despite being devoid of oxygen and hypersaline, are teeming with a rich community of so-called ‘extremophile’ microbes.”

Posted on July 19, 2022 Author Caspian Comment(0)
Earth's habitability Intelligent Design Mars

The layered hills of Mars’ Arabia Terra

“One can imagine an ancient lake filling the crater in which these mounds are located, the shoreline changing as the sea level varied with the Martian climate, the tides leaving behind alternating layers of mudstone and limestone.”

Posted on July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Author Caspian Comments(3)

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