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Few want to hear this but … Darwinism made racism science

For reasons familiar to anyone who follows human psychology, our group was supposed to be the smartest. We were told to be nice to the others anyway. They couldn’t help their stupidity, nor could we. That was the view smart people had. Stupid Fundamentalists, by contrast, still believed in Adam and Eve… Read More ›

Physicist David Snoke: Living systems must obey the same rules as Maxwell’s demons

Snoke: I argue that information and entropy are objective physical quantities, defined for systems as a whole, which allow general arguments in terms of physical law. In particular, I argue that living systems obey the same rules as Maxwell’s demons. Read More ›

Not only did researchers discover a new type of cell but it has regenerative properties

Did anyone notice that last point? “Progress in understanding COPD has been gradual in part because mice—the standard lab animal—have lungs that lack key features of human lungs.” But then we tend to live much longer than mice too… Read More ›

Hey, more fun from the Babylon Bee…

Still in Twitter jail, before we go back to our regular work (It is hard to both work and gather Easter eggs at the same time so… ) Father Of 5-Year-Old Pterodactyl Finds It’s Not Easy To Get Species-Affirming Care In America Bottom Story of the day!: Canadians furious over “Don’t Say Eh” bill. Nothing ever happens in Canada if you don’t count Convoy! If you don’t have to wear a stupid, useless, smelly mask today, thank a Canadian trucker. Chances are, he is rolling up the Alaska Highway and won’t hear you. But never mind. Meanwhile: Here are Woke changes Disney is making to old cartoons. And — remember that English teacher? — Can you name the Christ figure Read More ›

L&FP, 55: Defining/Clarifying Intelligent Design as Inference, as Theory, as a Movement

It seems, despite UD’s resources tab, some still struggle to understand ID in the three distinct senses: inference, theory/research programme, movement. Accordingly, let us headline a clarifying note from the current thread on people who doubt, for the record: [KF, 269:] >>. . . first we must mark out a matter of inductive reasoning and epistemology. Observed tested, reliable signs such as FSCO/I [= functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information, “fun-skee”] beyond 500 – 1,000 bits point to design as cause for cases we have not observed. This is the design INFERENCE. Note, inference, not movement, not theory. Following the UD Weak Argument Correctives under the Resources tab, we can identify ID Theory as a [small] research programme that Read More ›