De-extinction: Crackpot idea or only a hint of astonishing new biotechnology?
Apparently, US Republicans (39%) doubt humans evolved from an earlier species of animals
Flash news!: 100 percent of our genome is identical to chimp genome ;)
Computer-generated nonsense research papers story trending
Intelligent design vs. Darwinism turns on the centrality of information
Viruses created multicellular life forms?
Darwin, Kingsley, evolution and racism
Did Charles Darwin ever invoke his own theory in order to justify the extermination of one race by another? If the term “extermination” refers to systematic genocide, the answer is an emphatic “No”; but if “extermination” is defined more broadly to include the displacement and consequent extinction of one race by another, more technologically advanced race in the battle for scarce resources, then I would argue that the answer is “Yes.” I recently came across some highly revealing correspondence between the celebrated author and Anglican divine, Charles Kingsley (see here) and Charles Darwin, whom he greatly admired, (see here) indicating that Darwin, like Kingsley, looked forward to “the higher races of men, when high enough, replacing & clearing off the Read More ›
So what did the Kepler space telescope discover, 715 confirmed planets later?
Smell the fear: Vid on inaccurate science illustrations rushes through the “ascent of man”
If an entity is complex and specified like life, but just too different, what would we call it?
A new, lower estimate for exoplanets that could support life
Geneticists use code words for race, science writer says
Richard Dawkins: How Could Anyone “Possibly Doubt the Fact of Evolution”
Evolutionists like to say that there are mountains of evidence for evolution, but what is the best evidence? What would make a creationist think twice? Twenty five seconds into this video evolutionist Richard Dawkins answers this question. His killer evidence is the congruence between the genes of different plants and animals. Compare the genes across a range of species and you’ll see a “perfect hierarchy, a perfect family tree.” In fact, you’ll see the same result for evolutionary trees using just single genes—the so-called gene trees. It works “with every gene you do separately.” Read more
Another Question for Matzke
Dear Nick, We’ve had this exchange: Barry Arrington: “If you came across a table on which was set 500 coins (no tossing involved) and all 500 coins displayed the ‘heads’ side of the coin, would you reject ‘chance’ as a hypothesis to explain this particular configuration of coins on a table?” Mark Frank: “. . . they might have slid out of a packet of coins without a chance to turn over.” Sal Cordova: “Which still means chance is not the mechanism of the configuration.” Matzke: “Not really.” Now Central Scrutinizer suggests: If I were a software engineer commissioned to write the best random number generator possible, and after I delivered my product, the first set of results that my Read More ›