From Cambridge U: tons of Darwin material now free online
Rosetta finding: Earth’s water not from comets
Darwin’s Doubt: Fake Steve Meyer Facebook pages a new Internet publishing craze
Student’s guide to intelligent design, updated
Seven easy steps to intelligence – like obtain a head or something
Retraction Watch: It’s a good thing someone is looking into all this
Guest Post: Design Detection
Paul Giem provides the following guest post today: The following three pictures were made to represent trays with 560 coins with either white (heads) or black (tails) showing. At least one of them was created by shaking coins and then spreading them out on a table (actually multiple shakes of 20 or so coins) and copying the pattern of heads and tails produced. Which one or ones are they, and why? Were the ones, if any, that were not done by this process designed, and if so by whom, and using what method? 1. 2. 3.
And now for something completely different: The ancient balloon animal
Fine tuning: Size of Earth
Eric Metaxas on the unlikelihood of our existence
Yes, that Eric Metaxas: Further to: Anything to get rid of fine tuning: “Reason and science compels us to see what previous generations could not: that our existence is an outrageous and astonishing miracle, one so startlingly and perhaps so disturbingly miraculous that it makes any miracle like the parting of the Red Sea pale in such insignificance that it almost becomes unworthy of our consideration, as though it were something done easily by a child, half-asleep. It is something to which the most truly human response is some combination of terror and wonder, of ancient awe, and childhood joy.” Eric Metaxas – Miracles – pages 55-56 See also:Copernicus, you are not going to believe who is using your name. Or Read More ›