News

One my scoundrel-hero-bankers of Wall Street, Goldman-Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein famously said: “we’re doing God’s work“, responding to criticism that his firm made huge profits from the demise of others and he paid himself fat bonuses. Well, in like manner “we’re doing God’s work” here at UD, benefiting from the demise of Darwinism. Novelists and writers have referred to Jamie Dimon (left) and Blankfein (right) along with other bankers as “Masters of the Universe”. Due to popular demand, I’m starting another off-topic thread in honor of BA77’s contributions to UD. Here is an off topic. Dawkins is under the impression that religious belief is mostly perpetuated through indoctrination. I don’t know about that because of people like Mitsuo Fuchida who Read More ›

To facilitate discussion, we are publishing the abstracts and conclusions/summaries of the 24 papers from the Cornell Conference on the Origin of Biological Information here at Uncommon Descent, with cumulative links to previous papers at the bottom of each page. You can get from anywhere to anywhere in the system. Note: A blow-by-blow account of the difficulties that the authors experienced from Darwin lobby attempts to censor the book by denying it publication with Springer are detailed here. Fortunately, the uproar resulted in an opportunity for readers like yourself to read the book online. That said, the hard cover version is now shipping. An excerpt from “Biological Information and Genetic Theory: Introductory Comments” by John C. Sanford: Given all the Read More ›

[precursor to Denyse’s post Darwin in the School’s Lobby has a new]From the Ultraman Series we have the Science Patrol: From DC Comics, we have the Justice League of America: So what do you get when you put together these two fictional ideas? The NCSE’s latest: NOTES:1. And the NCSE might even have a march to go along with their latest offering: 2. Denyse will post on the NCSE latest shortly 3. Photo Credits:http://www.chrisroberson.net/uploaded_images/Science-Patrol-710762.jpghttp://ncse.com/files/blog-images/blogLogo.jpghttp://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100310031007/superfriends/images/f/f7/Justice_League_of_America_(FOUNDERS).jpg

YECs are very interested in mechanism of accelerated nuclear decay. Ironically, so is the mainstream in order to find better methods of dealing with nuclear waste instead of burying it underground (or worse putting it in containers and tossing it in the sea). Here is a breaking development published in a peer-reviewed article in 2013: Accelerated alpha-decay of uranium isotopes induced by exposure of aqueous solution of uranium salt with gold nanoparticles to laser radiation a pre-print of the work is available here: Accelerated alpha-decay of 232U isotope achieved by exposure of its aqueous solution with gold nanoparticles to laser radiation One notable highlight was that nuclear decay was accelerated by a factor of 6-trillion! In other words, the half-life Read More ›