Posts Tagged by Rob Sheldon
Rob Sheldon on the failure of selfish gene theory and peacocks, as well as bees
| October 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon writes to offer some thoughts on the recent study of bees, which failed to confirm selfish gene thinking as an explanation for communal life: This is really a most interesting study. If you recall, E. O. Wilson got fame and glory for studying ants. The problem he addressed, is […]
Rob Sheldon: What if the “building blocks from space” are really degraded life?
| October 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design |
In the story we ran yesterday, “‘Compelling new evidence’ claimed for comets generating phosphates for earliest life,” we noted that our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon thinks that the idea that building blocks of life came from space is plausible and should be demonstrable. He offers his somewhat controversial thesis here: — I’ve argued elsewhere […]
Rob Sheldon: How we know the 558 mya animal Dickinsonia remains really contained fats
| September 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Ediacaran, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Recently, some readers asked whether the recent Dickinsonia fossil “fats” find from 558 mya featured cholesterol. Our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon explains further: Cholesterol was not found by these researchers, nor did they make announcements of soft tissue in a fossil. What they did find were the breakdown products of cholesterol called “sterols”. Plants make […]
Why computer programs that mimic the human brain will continue to underperform
| September 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon offers a comment on whether simple probabilities can outweigh “deep learning” (as noted earlier here. ) When neural nets [computer programs that mimic the human brain] were all the rage in physics, some 25 years ago, I spoke with the author of a paper who was using neural nets […]
Rob Sheldon comments on the “dirtiest fight in physics”
| September 11, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Culture, Naturalism, Physics, Science |
Recently, we noted the dirtiest fight in physics, over the nature of the universe. Our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts: A great story on the level of confusion in the world of astronomy and particle physics. My own view is: they’re both wrong. Dark Matter WIMP proponents postulate an invisible particle that […]
Rob Sheldon’s thoughts on physicists’ “warped” view of time
| August 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics |
Further to Carlo Rovelli’s views on time travel (only a technological problem, not a scientific one) and the order of time in general, views, as set out in The Order of Time, our color commentator Rob Sheldon offers, — If I can speculate about what goes on in physicist’s heads, this issue about time is an attempt […]
