If turtles are closer to birds than to lizards and snakes, genetically, then …
| May 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Genetics, News |
Doesn’t this raise some questions about conventional accounts of evolution? more
From The Best Schools: Gifted neurosurgeon Ben Carson fails Political Correctness 101 at Emory U
| May 23, 2012 | Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Medicine |
“So if Carson thinks that “Darwinian evolution, or any form of pure materialism, undermines the basis of ethics,” he could call Ruse as a witness.” more
Atheist philosopher James Barham explains why he checked out of Darwinism
| May 23, 2012 | Atheism, Darwinism |
” I was familiar with Aristotle. So, I knew there were problems with Darwinism as a metaphysical system, and that alternatives existed.” more
If geneticist James Shapiro is never respectable again, philosopher James Barham is not to blame
| May 21, 2012 | academic freedom, Genetics, Intelligent Design |
Doubting Darwin is. more
Epigenetics in Real Time: Samie Jaffrey Goes There and Evolution is Getting Trashed
| May 21, 2012 | Intelligent Design |
You won’t believe what Samie Jaffrey’s group at Cornell is confirming and elucidating about epigenetics, the fantastic adaptation capability cells have to adjust to environmental shifts. Epigenetics is a broad term for a range of adaptation capabilities achieved via the regulation of gene expression. Gene expression can be regulated, for example, by attaching small chemical… more
If the genetic code just plain designed itself, would that be intelligent design?
| May 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, News |
The short answer is that it depends on how completely committed to dogmatic materialism one is. more
Multiverse: String theorists are not getting the key positions any more?
| May 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
Sobering note: Departments ” offering the few jobs available only to people working in a small number of areas that are conventionally agreed to be ‘hot’” more
New role for RNA: alerting cell to genome damage
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Intelligent Design, News |
“For decades the scientific community has attributed a role to RNA that is subordinate to that of DNA …” more
Climate scientists should ramp up the rhetoric to sway public opinion – science writer
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Climate change, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
Something is missing from this picture. Going bad didn’t make the science stars good; it just didn’t stop them from winning. more
Hindu-sponsored ID book team now offers documentaries as well
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, News |
Stanley Salthe, a known dissenter from Darwin, trashed by Darwinists, appears in the film.
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The multiverse: Just an excuse to sell books now?
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
We had no idea it was that bad. We thought their hat had way more rabbits in it. more
How flowering plants precision engineer their pollination
| May 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Intelligent Design, News |
” … flowers have evolved an elegant safeguard system to ensure that only the minimum necessary number of pollen tubes will reach each ovule.” more
What gets past peer review these days? Immortality through exercise …
| May 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Peer review |
“Man would be immortal if only he did sufficient daily exercise, something in the region of six hours.” (?) more
Interesting new paper: “A pluralistic model of heredity is now emerging”
| May 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Epigenetics, News |
“, based on a recognition of multiple, parallel mechanisms of inheritance. ” more
Why “doing the science” about literature doesn’t tell you much about literature
| May 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
” … to think that the invocation of empirical studies on a subject frees one from the job of finding out what the great instinctive psychologists have said … is just misguided.” more
Convergent evolution: Tooth enamel of vertebrates and crayfish
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“The teeth of the Australian freshwater crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus are covered with an enamel amazingly similar to that of vertebrates.” more
Multiverse proponent Brian Greene on the state of the evidence
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
“As of today, we are far from crossing this threshold. ” more
Stasis: Melanin in squid ink unchanged since Jurassic times
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under News, stasis |
Apparently melanin resists degradation much more than other organic pigments. more
From The Best Schools: James Barham replies to James Shapiro
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Self-Org. Theory |
Leaving Darwinism is simply giving oneself permission to think. And that includes patiently rethinking a number of questions (like the one Barham revisits. more
From PhD Comics: The science news cycle
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Media, News, Science |
PhD makes Eyewitless News … then bloggo mondo …