Category: News
Fossils of insects pollinating plants from 100 million years ago
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Plants |
Given that 80% of today’s flowering plants depend on insect pollination, there must have been a good deal of co-evolution and horizontal gene transfer. more
Anomalous Cambrian creature reconstructed, amazing
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, News |
Some Cambrian animals really do sound like science fiction. more
If you have been an ardent believer in dark matter, revise your expectations, maybe
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“Employing exotic unobservable entities such as dark matter may be an escape from scientific rigor in more ways than one. ” more
Doubts about Darwin spreading into the Brit population?
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Popular culture |
Jones should enjoy her freedom to notice that because it may soon be made clear to her that Darwinism is in fact a source of Really Important Enlightenment to power brokers … more
Kiddie neurosurgeon Ben Carson, evolution, and morality
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News |
“many evolutionists — from Darwin to the present — have argued and are still arguing precisely the point that Dr. Carson was highlighting” more
Wall art discovered from 37,000 years ago
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
“Hundreds of personal ornaments have been discovered, including pierced animal teeth, pierced shells, ivory and soapstone beads, engravings, and paintings on limestone slabs.” more
Darwin in the schools debate revisited in Texas?
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
“Here, politics play a significant role because the State Board of Education is an elected, rather than appointed, body.” more
Evolutionary Informatics Lab- a look inside …
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Informatics, Intelligent Design, News |
Head, Bob Marks, interviewed by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society History Committee. more
Y chromosome durability: AKA secret sex worries of science writers
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Genetics, News |
“Y chromosomes are here to stay, and are not the genetic wasteland that they were once thought to be.” more
Fashionable bashing of “scientism” merely disguises its collision course with reality
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
” … everything is supposed to be weighed and measured even though the human mind that evaluates the results is supposed to be an illusion.” more
David Abel: Formalism not only describes, but preceded, prescribed, organized, and continues to govern and predict Physicality.
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
“Chance, necessity and mere constraints cannot steer, program or optimize algorithmic/ computational success to provide desired nontrivial utility.” more
Deprogramming “neuro”politics in an election year
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“Political beliefs are hugely complex, and can change rapidly and quickly over time.” more
We must pretend there is free will so as to go on using the language of ethics?
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Odds are, given that they don’t really believe in free will, after a while they won’t use the language of ethics and won’t really miss it. more
Philosophy: Contact with death improves people’s behaviour?
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
“‘Once we started developing this study we were surprised how much research showed positive outcomes from awareness of mortality,’ said Arndt. ” more
John Gray: Evolutionary theorists assume their own leanings in morality are universal
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
“… self-evident to secular social scientists in American universities, but it hardly squares with how most human beings (or most Americans, for that matter) understand morality.” more
They used to wonder, but now they take medication for that.
| May 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
So official explanation just got a whole lot easier. more
Psychology association – target of a bunk watch, no less! – fronts politics as “brain wiring”
| May 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News, Psychology |
So, if voters are losing their jobs because of government decisions, the best way to understand their response is to theorize about neuroscience findings? Hither, bunkwatch! more
Early bipedalism walked no straight line?
| May 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
It’s not clear that there’s much to learn here if we want to know why humans walk exclusively upright, which is different in principle from sometimes using an upright stance more
Nothing to see here? New book might change that – Peter Woit
| May 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
“While the argument between Krauss, Albert and their fellow combatants was mind-numbingly dumb, boring, narrow, petty and ill-mannered, Holt’s discussion of the topic is brilliant, … ” more
From The Best Schools: Credentialism, Part II: The less well-advertised reasons why credentialism is so popular today
| May 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, News |
“It forms an industry for the people who create the courses and grant the credentials.” Not a bad thing in principle, but … more