Monthly Archives: October 2011
Orangutans have culture too, it is claimed
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Animal minds, News |
There is probably about as much difference between the behaviour of urban and rural squirrels, that offspring learn from their dams, but you wouldn’t get away with calling it culture. more
The shape of things to come, and it ain’t pretty
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Legal, Mind, News |
Even the useless dweeb legacy media coverage can’t quite get around the radical evil that says everything we need to know. more
Apparently, archaeopteryx has been restored as “first bird” again. Maybe.
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“He found a way to jam it in, to be Darwinian, not convergent. If anyone believes it.” more
Why spiders know what you are doing and you don’t know how they do
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“the sensory organs responded to forces as small as 0.01 milliNewtons—less than half a percent of the body weight of a typical cockroach.” more
Scientists do have free speech rights, court rules
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News |
Wonder when/if that’ll apply to official public Darwin squawks. more
Epigenetics: Poverty can lead to later obesity?
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Epigenetics, News |
“Adults who grew up in poverty show changes in the “programming” of their DNA that may be linked to health problems such as obesity and autoimmune diseases, …” more
Human evolution: Neanderthals had expensive tastes
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“Around the time they went extinct Neanderthals had a taste for the finer things in life. more
Genetics: Can 100 100 year olds tell us how to live long?
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Genetics, News |
“The genomic subjects would come from 100 donor centenarians. Now the contest will last a month, and each sequence must cost $1,000 or less.” more
How woodpeckers avoid brain injury
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
We didn’t wonder either, but it’s a good question, now someone mentions it. Turns out … more
New film on the Scopes trial
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
The big misrepresentation, which we hope the film will correct, was that Darwinism in those days had anything to do with science; it was actually about eugenics. more
Dawkins, asked to address an obvious point, flubs it
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News |
The point I put to Dawkins was that the USA was simultaneously by-far the most dominant scientific nation in the world (I knew this from various scientometic studies I was doing at the time) and by-far the most religious (Christian) nation in the world. more
You think YOUR tenured lecture room bore is bad?
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Peer review |
Check out this guy and his administration: Dora Doormat and Flora Floormat. more
ID Foundations, 9: Cause, necessity/contingency vs. sufficiency/determinism, the observed (fine tuned . . . ) cosmos and design theory
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under ID Foundations |
In recent exchanges, design objector RH7, has made objections to the concept of cause, regarding it as an outmoded, deterministic and classical (in the bad sense) view. Since this is now clearly yet another line of objection to design inference on detection of credible causal factors, we need to add a response to this to… more
Not everything Jerry Coyne freaks out about is unreasonable
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
Just when it became obvious they were crackpots, Templeton is funding them. more
Looking for a career in science?
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Science |
This guy will cheer you up, if nothing lese: Government scientist: Working as a government scientist is a great idea, because the government is really popular right now. Read any newspaper and you’ll see stories about how much people love and trust the government. And Adjunct teaching: Ah, the free life of an adjunct instructor! Adjuncting… more
Why does this remind us of something an American Indian activist said?
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
In “The First Americans: Mounting Evidence Prompts Researchers to Reconsider the Peopling of the New World” (Scientific American, October 18, 2011), Heather Pringle looks at the surprising information regarding the first North Americans: “Humans colonized the New World earlier than previously thought—a revelation that is forcing scientists to rethink long-standing ideas about these trailblazers” Archaeologists… more
Coffee for sure: Jerry “Why evolution is true” Coyne discovers that creationists have invaded
| October 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Some geology meeting. Like anyone should care. Coyne. Get. Over. Yourself. He’s also mad at Templeton for funding BioLogos, but Templeton funds way crazier crackpots. more
Junk Science as Ersatz Religion
| October 28, 2011 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Why are ID theorists skeptical of “man-caused carbon dioxide emissions leading to the destruction of the planet” theory? The reason is that we follow the evidence, and have a nose that smells out junk science in the name of an ideological (indeed, a religious) agenda. At a recent men’s church retreat I chatted with our… more
Cells as not just a bag of chemicals
| October 28, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Here. more
Science stories: Could you put a cigarette paper between credibility and plausibility?
| October 28, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
By the way, someone at the Philly Inquirer thinks you are spanking her if you doubt. more