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Biology Intelligent Design Philosophy Science

Jerry Coyne defends the sex binary in animals

Gotta hand it to Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, he’s a brave one. He is taking on the Woke claim that sex isn’t really binary in animals.

Posted on March 14, 2023 Author News Comments(20)
Darwinism Evolution

At Evolution News: Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

Often portrayed as a simple Darwinian development, it was recently admitted at Nature to be a puzzle.

Posted on March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 Author News Comments(19)
'Junk DNA' Embryology

Junk DNA has yet another job – keeping mouse embryos alive

Depletion of MERVL transcripts [ retrotransposons] results in embryonic lethality with profound defects in development and is associated with dysregulation of MERVL including their adjacent transcripts, and retaining two-cell-like transcriptome and chromatin state.

Posted on March 14, 2023 Author News Comment(1)
Human evolution Intelligent Design

Paranthropus: But, on the other hand, ARE those stones actually tools?

Elbein: “The monkeys — long-tailed macaques — seem to have made their artifacts by accident, not by design. But in many ways, that only makes the finding more disruptive.”

Posted on March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 Author News Comments(4)
Human evolution Intelligent Design Mind

At VICE: Our view of intelligent [human] life upended by tools find?

So it’s sort of like your great-uncle and aunt made the tools, not your great-grandparents. And that’s supposed to make all the difference? Meanwhile, another “subhuman” candidate to scratch off the list.

Posted on March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 Author News Comments(5)
Intelligent Design Naturalism theism

Does the order of nature point to a divine mind?

Saleem Ali engages with Steve Meyer.

Posted on March 12, 2023 Author News Comments(2)
Intelligent Design Media Science

Science journalists are paid not to be skeptical?

The science writers’ behavior around the origin of COVID raises the question: About what other, less immediate but more profound topics, are these professional non-skeptics obfuscating things?

Posted on March 12, 2023March 12, 2023 Author News Comment(0)
Intelligent Design Philosophy Science

A classic in scientism: ‘In Science Lives Hope.’

When science becomes scientism, people who call out the bad stuff become heretics, not just critics. We saw plenty of that during the COVID crazy.

Posted on March 12, 2023 Author News Comments(44)
Big Bang Cosmology Intelligent Design theism

Astrophysicist: The Big Bang says nothing about how the cosmos came to be

Has Frank just given away the store to theists? The situation is exactly what we would expect if the cosmos is designed by a supernatural intelligence. We can learn how it works but the inventor exists and works at a higher level. We get only scattered, partial insights as to that.

Posted on March 11, 2023 Author News Comments(5)
Cosmology Dark Energy Intelligent Design

Theoretical astrophysicist re dark energy: The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero.

And, as Ethan Seigel goes on to say at Big Think, “Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.”

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Author News Comment(0)
Intelligent Design Naturalism Plants

As panpsychism takes hold in science, plant minds become a focus

Is the growing presence of panpsychism in science an effort to get away from naturalism or to rescue it?

Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Author News Comments(2)
Animal minds Ethics Intelligent Design

“Murder” on the Serengeti?

“A new study of violent behavior in more than 1,000 mammal species found the meerkat is the mammal most likely to be murdered by one of its own kind.” Could someone please post the Meerkat Ten Commandments? Ten Suggestions even?

Posted on March 10, 2023 Author News Comment(1)
Evolution Intelligent Design stasis

Stray dogs vs “new species” at Chernobyl

Those “new species” that radiation would produce have always existed and always will exist — in the human imagination at least. Meanwhile, it is just the dogs. “Evolution” led them back to your basic dog.

Posted on March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 Author News Comments(3)
Biology Intelligent Design

Vox offers three “unexplainable” mysteries of life on Earth

Science writer Carl Zimmer offers “The problem is, for each definition of life, scientists can think of a confounding exception.”

Posted on March 9, 2023 Author News Comments(217)
Chemistry Intelligent Design Origin Of Life

Origin of life as a chemical Eden?

Requarth: “Russell’s conception of our species, along with every other living thing, as mere energy patterns, ultimately born of rogue fluctuations in the Universe’s infancy, might make us feel a little less special.” Maybe that’s the point of many origin of life theories…

Posted on March 9, 2023 Author News Comment(0)

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