New Coynage: E.O. Wilson calls Richard Dawkins a “journalist”
How Keith’s “Bomb” Turned Into A Suicide Mission
Keith brought in an argument he claimed to be a “bomb” for ID. It turned out to be a failed suicide mission where the only person that got blown up was Keith. (Please note: I am assuming that life patterns exists in an ONH, as Keith claims, for the sake of this argument only. Also, there are many other, different take-downs of Keith’s “bomb” argument already on the table. Indulge me while I present another here.) In my prior OP, I pointed out that Keith had made no case that nature was limited to producing only ONH’s when it comes to biological diversity, while his whole argument depended on it. He has yet to make that case, and has not Read More ›
Science as Religion
By Mollie Hemingway. Here. Kind of funny. But disturbing at a more basic level. Blind faith causes people to say strange things.
Barriers to macroevolution: what the proteins say
KeithS has been requesting scientific evidence of a genuine barrier to macroevolution. The following is a condensed, non-technical summary of Dr. Douglas Axe’s paper, The Case Against a Darwinian Origin of Protein Folds. Since (i) proteins are a pervasive feature of living organisms, (ii) new proteins and new protein folds have been continually appearing throughout the four-billion-year history of life on Earth, and (iii) at least some macroevolutionary events must have involved the generation of new protein folds, it follows that if Dr. Axe’s argument is correct and neo-Darwinian processes are incapable of hitting upon new functional protein folds, then there are indeed genuine barriers to macroevolution, in at least some cases. The argument put forward by Dr. Axe is Read More ›
Darwin’s Christians – a response to Sirius
On receptivity to new ideas
Nature’s sneery summary of creationist fossil hunter Mark Armitage’s wrongful dismissal suit against California State U
North Carolina’s lone effort to make reparations for eugenics
How big (and small) is the universe?
Is there such a thing as “liberal” science denial?
But the multiverse makes good literature, a reader writes to protest
In at least one universe in the infinity, not every physicist drank the Kool-Aid?
Post-election special: the evolutionary psychologist knows why you vote — and shop, and tip at restaurants
FYI-FTR: But, Wiki and Theobald’s 29+ evidences prove evolution is the best explanation of life and its branching tree pattern! — NOT
In recent exchanges in and around UD on origins and the tree of life, Theobald’s 29 evidences claims (and by implication the sort of summary presented by Wikipedia in its articles on Abiogenesis and Evolution) have come up. [NB: to carry forward discussions, I suggest here on. I intend to do a for reference in support of discussion here in this FTR post.] That leads me to point out the case of the UD pro-darwinism essay challenge and the strange absence of and reluctance to provide a guest essay here at UD over the course of a full year, Sept/Oct 2012 – Sept/Oct 2013. The big issue seemed to be that in my challenge as explained, I required tackling the Read More ›