A friend reminds us of what philosopher Michael Polanyi had to say about Darwinian evolution
William Lane Craig defends theistic evolution at Peaceful Science
Noted at Hillfaith: Atheists’ books show that God must exist
Francis Collins in the hot seat re COVID-19
A new solution for Hawking’s black hole paradox? “Quantum hair”
Catchy, we gotta admit: In 1976, Hawking suggested that, as black holes evaporate, they destroy information about what had formed them. That idea goes against a fundamental law of quantum mechanics which states any process in physics can be mathematically reversed. In the 1960s, physicist John Archibald Wheeler, discussing black holes’ lack of observable features beyond their total mass, spin, and charge, coined the phrase “black holes have no hair”—known as the no-hair theorem. However, the newly discovered “quantum hair” provides a way for information to be preserved as a black hole collapses and, as such, resolves one of modern science’s most famous quandaries, experts say. Prof Calmet said: “Black holes have long been considered the perfect laboratory to study Read More ›
The New Yorker — oh, so cleverly! — misunderstands the issues around teaching of origins
Woke science journal Lancet goes to war against meat
At Mind Matters News: Why researchers focus on possible life on Venus
OOL claim: RNA molecule develops complexity following Darwinian evolution
David Berlinski, the bad boy philosopher who doubts Darwinism, is back
L&FP, 54: J C Wright on the haunting “Morlockery” of many today, in the neo-gnostic, nihilistic “Technoplutocracy”
Mr Wright, a noted Science Fiction/Fantasy writer [and married to another, L Jagi Lampwriter Wright] observes a pattern of our times: Technoplutocracy is my term for our current intellectual elite, a combination of traditionally leftwing and rightwing elements [–> outdated reference], dominating our public institutions, political and legal and scholarly, corporate culture, international finance, but most particularly in our mass media and social media. Not all Morlocks are technoplutocratic elites, but all elites are Morlocks. “Morlock,” is a strange term, tracing to pioneer Sci Fi writer H G Wells in Time Machine. As Wright describes, “[i]n Wells, the Morlock is a cannibal troglodyte who treats other human descendants [the “fair, childlike Eloi”] as cattle [–> as in, food].” So, he Read More ›