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06.05.2024
Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense.
05.05.2024
While the West reeled from America’s stock market crash of 1929, another crisis was brewing in the field of cosmology.
04.05.2024
The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex.
Everyone did a great job, and the conversation was science-packed from beginning to end. Not one word of invective, and indeed highly cordial.
Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers.
03.05.2024
A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness.
Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature.
02.05.2024
I recently wrote a post critical of biologist Peter Corning’s “synergism hypothesis.” Afterwards Dr. Corning got in touch.
The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function.
What Richard Dawkins seems not to have realized — or perhaps now is realizing too late — is that scientific materialism is the suicide of reason.
Okay, this should be interesting. The question up for discussion: “Is the Human Genome Largely Junk DNA?”
01.05.2024
The location of his grave was quickly forgotten, since the Stalinist regime was hardly inclined to perpetuate the memory of this “creationist” scientist.
30.04.2024
Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff.
29.04.2024
One thing I am fairly certain about: overthrowing the Big Bang theory is not in the offing.
28.04.2024
Brand new research from the Salk Institute has just been published relating to the origin of self-replicating RNA — a lynchpin in the RNA-world hypothesis.
27.04.2024
It seems to me that the best approach to the policy opinions of mainstream bioethicists is to consider the source, shrug, and carry on.
Apart from this more general critique, are there any implications from these amber insects for intelligent design theory? You bet!
26.04.2024
You’re a Bad Egg if you doubt the multiverse, whatever the flavor, in the same Basket of Bad Eggs as evolution deniers.
Intelligent design advocates have more fun at eclipses, knowing they are not just coincidental. That was certainly my experience on April 8.
The property of a keen sense of smell allows a polar bear to smell a seal miles away under the ice.
25.04.2024
The purpose of this book is not to exhaustively survey the history of cosmology through the centuries.
24.04.2024
Many widely read scientific writers of our day mistakenly attribute the concepts of the expanding universe and the Big Bang to Edwin Hubble and Albert Einstein.
23.04.2024
Every year, around a billion monarchs travel from across North America to gather overwinter in a few specific locations in Mexico.
22.04.2024
Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints.
21.04.2024
Is all this a coincidence? We think that’s a stretch. One or two fortunate parameters might be called a fluke.
20.04.2024
The case of Professor William Amos represents an interesting parallel with dissenters in the intelligent design community.
Dennett noted that Paul Nelson and I were in the audience and would be speaking at Tufts that evening on intelligent design.
19.04.2024
The authors conclude, “It seems remote that AI would conclude that it is ‘turtles all the way down’.”
Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution.
18.04.2024
“Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?”
Utah is the fourth state — the others are Ohio, Florida, and Idaho — restricting rights to the human realm where they belong.
The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery.
17.04.2024
Scientific censorship is on the rise. Governments are colluding with Big Tech to suppress unfavorable ideas
There are several factors that make detecting direction challenging for the observing bees. One is that the dances take place inside a dark hive.
16.04.2024
Early in her career, Celeste Nelson tried to publish a paper on chicken lung development. The reviewers were not very interested in her findings.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, then, Stephen Jay Gould’s panda argument does not provide evidence against intelligent design.
In a loose sense, America may be “irreducibly complex” but NPR sure is not. And “diverse”? America is, but NPR certainly isn’t.
15.04.2024
“40,000 years of evolution and we’ve barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.”
14.04.2024
Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design.
13.04.2024
Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life.