Personality – Uncommon Descent

At Mind Matters News: Can insects have personalities too?

What about bacteria? If personality amounts to observed individual differences in behavior, the answer is yes.

Extraterrestrial life Genetics Intelligent Design Peer review

At Retraction Watch: “Transparently absurd” paper at Elsevier

Retraction Watch: Erm, about that concerning peer review process. Elsevier also was the publisher of the equally risible book chapter claiming that COVID-19 came to earth on a meteorite.

Querius Silver Asiatic @267, Good points all. On the subject of parentage, my wife and I always assumed that our children... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Querius Here's a good video presentation by Dr. Lustig. It will cost you an hour of your time, it's a bit... – At least, the “science of obesity”...
polistra The only solution is PRECISELY ZERO government funding and VERY SMALL corporate funding. Let worthy projects gather their own patrons... – Policy analyst: More funding is not...
polistra Excellent narrative. – Granville Sewell on the first “self-replicating”...
Silver Asiatic Querius What if you destroy life by eating it? Murder? It's a great question. There have been human societies that... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Silver Asiatic BA77 Why Fossils Cannot Demonstrate Darwinian Evolution Claims of convergent evolution are proof of this. Genetic similarity does not match... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
Silver Asiatic Part 2 of Loenning's paper gives much more detail: http://www.weloennig.de/GiraffaSecondPartEnglish.pdf 99.99% of all mammal species possess exactly seven neck vertebrae.... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
EDTA >"...are highly suggestive proxy evidence for the earliest clothing in the archaeological record..." Clothing, yes. But when was the first... – Evidence of clothing from 90 000...
bornagain77 Yes Querius, given the Cambrian explosion by itself you would think that Darwinists would be far more reticent in claiming... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
ronvanwegen A few hundred thousand (?) naked apes wandering around. One of 'em grunts, "Imma now gonna tie this piece of... – Evidence of clothing from 90 000...
Silver Asiatic LCD This world is made by God to produce saints(to replace fallen angels) Great thought - perfectly stated. That thought... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
vividbleau “but also providing concrete evidence of how one creature evolved into another.” It does no such thing “Also, fossils aren’t... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
Silver Asiatic Seversky Human parents are regarded as being responsible for the care and well-being of their children Yes, exactly. We don't... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Silver Asiatic Querius To your point, all these changes will certainly manifest themselves continually in tangible ways, or the person is a... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
vividbleau KF Welcome back I hope things are settling down for you Vivid – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Querius Seversky, The problem is when you try to anthropomorphize God. God created space and time and does not have human... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Querius The problem with the calories in/calories out approach is that it ignores the 30-40% drop in basal metabolism under caloric... – At least, the “science of obesity”...
Seversky Silver Asiatic/216 If your own life belongs to your creator, then it is His. So, it wouldn’t be immoral for... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Lieutenant Commander Data 1. Why do some detractors care when they are already intractably wedded to MN? 2. Why do some detractors not... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...
Querius Bornagain77 @19, Loved your post, especially this quote! “No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity... – Laszlo Bencze: Just another gratuitous use...
Querius KF, Wonderfully articulated and stepped through! Since there are some who continually impose and propagate methodoligical naturalism in spite of... – Lutheran religious studies prof asks, Is...