Monthly Archives: January 2012
Elephant’s extra “toe”: Another “vestigial organ” bites the dust – in this case, literally
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, News |
“Over the years its purpose or lack of purpose has been debated.” more
Jerry Coyne won’t meet Moshe Averick to discuss the origin of life puzzle – but turns out he’s just as puzzled … .
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
” … we don’t know how life started and it’s a really thorny problem because nobody was there …” more
Flannery replies to Shermer on Wallace: Wallace’s World of Life “was written largely to demonstrate that evolution is not blind but intelligent”
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“In an interview with the Daily Chronicle Wallace declared unequivocally, ‘Materialism is as dead as priestcraft for all intelligent minds.’” more
Astrophysicist: Super Earths are more attractive to life than Earth is
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“These are solid planets of rock and ice between 1 and 10 times the mass of the Earth. ” more
Dogs could have come from different groups of ancestors: Researchers
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“The two earliest incipient dogs from Western Europe (Goyet, Belguim) and Siberia (Razboinichya), separated by thousands of kilometers, show that dog domestication was multiregional, and thus had no single place of origin … and subsequent spread.” more
More evidence that dinobird icon Archaeopteryx could fly?
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
” … modern wing feathers had evolved as early as 150 million years ago in the Jurassic period.” more
ID Foundations 15 (b): Front-loading as a testable hypothesis cont’d — a guest post by Genomicus
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cell biology, ID Foundations |
Genomicus continues his presentation of the front-loading hypothesis: ___________ Geno: >>In my previous article on the subject of front-loading, I described the front-loading hypothesis and what it proposes. I outlined three testable predictions generated by the front-loading hypothesis. In this article, we’ll see how the front-loading hypothesis can lead us to numerous research questions, and… more
Berlinski on the Big Bang: “How would knowing more mathematics help, I wonder?”
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Mathematics, Philosophy |
“To ask for the time that time began is a little like asking for the length of length. ” more
Why does the climate change lobby want the Darwin lobby on board?
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Climate change, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
NCSE’s pass into publicly funded schools, due to court decisions, is valuable – isn’t that the product their new, well-heeled “climate change” funders are really buying? more
Dembski replies to Shapiro: “Natural genetic engineering” is just magic, by another name. Can you make it science?
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Self-Org. Theory |
“For him, natural genetic engineering is a magic phrase, a label, that he attaches to hypothesized processes that are opaque to him and yet that he claims result in evolutionary novelty.” more
Peer review: Both authors and ghostwriters liable for fraud, in ghostwritten medical articles?
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Peer review |
Shape of things to come elsewhere? more
Philosopher: How Shermer is pulling a fast one in his debate with Flannery on Wallace
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
“Shermer and his like … first deny metaphysics and then ask questions answerable only by metaphysics. … The only solution is to show that they cheat.” more
Darwinist Jerry Coyne refuses to discuss origin of life in person with maverick rabbi; claims he oppresses women
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
By the way, James Shapiro, currently sparring with the ID theorists, admits that origin of life is still on the fringe of science. more
Neanderthals engineered their tools?
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
It’s amazing how much Neanderthals have learned in the last three decades. more
The Big Picture: 56 minutes that may change your life
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Professor John C. Walton is a scientist who holds not one but two doctorates. He is a Research Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews University, and he is a Chartered Chemist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In a recent talk… more
Dinosaur nesting site pushes back knowledge by 100 million years
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“Even though the fossil record of dinosaurs is extensive, we actually have very little fossil information about their reproductive biology.” more
UK biologist Steve Jones: “Life is no more than a local patch of order.”
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Extraterrestrial life, News |
Also, he says, Hawking is wrong to think life is widespread in the galaxy more
Shermer vs. Flannery: Resolved: If He Were Alive Today, Alfred Russel Wallace Would Be an Intelligent Design Advocate
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Both Shermer and Flannery are Wallace biographers. Feel free to comment here. more
Shame on our lack of faith: Here’s potential proof of the multiverse …
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Multiverse, News |
… or maybe as good as proof gets in these matters. more
Death Valley’s Ubehebe crater only 800 years old, not 6000?
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Geology, News |
And it could happen again … more