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New Research Finds Two Trillion Galaxies
Not one of these myriad galaxies would exist without fantastically precise cosmological fine-tuning.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
Philosophical Objections to Intelligent Design: A Response to Critics
Some reviewers of Darwin's Black Box raised philosophical objections. I will discuss several of these.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos – American white pelican, Walden Ponds, Boulder, Colorado, July 16, 2016. Mea culpa: The birds were just beyond the limit of my equipment, but this was the first time I recall seeing pelicans so late in the season and certainly the first time I have seen a juvenile. It may be sampling error – I do not visit Walden Ponds every week – but I wonder whether they are changing their migration...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Sayonara, EvolutionBlog
Jason Rosenhouse is calling it a day. His EvolutionBlog is ceasing publication. Jason is one of the veterans in the evolution/creationism wars, dating back to his postdoc at Kansas State around 14 years ago, when he got involved with the Kansas Board of Education’s efforts to pollute the teaching of biology with creationism. While Jason blogged on other topics–chess, religion, math–for our purposes here let it be remarked that Jason is one of the most...
Richard B. Hoppe
Categories: Pro-Science News
More on Ark Park on opening day
Dan Phelps, who visited the Ark Park on opening day, has published a longer account, Kentucky Gets an Ark-Shaped Second Creation “Museum” on the website of the National Center for Science Education. The article has lots of detail and many more interesting pictures than we ran on PT. One section that especially amused me was the Ark Park’s attack on what you might call cutesy children’s books that tell the Noah story – which Mr....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
An Open Letter to Dr. Hossenfelder's Mother
Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder neatly dismisses media hype about a "multiverse."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwinism and "Astroturf"
Here's a helpful concept from investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is the Human Form Riddled with Bad Design?
Even most atheist biologists grant that living things, including human beings, appear intelligently designed.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
Do New Ediacaran Fossils Muffle the Cambrian Explosion?
Geologists found Ediacaran fossils in Nevada and studied the classic strata in Australia more carefully.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwinists and the Fossil Record: Missing a Few Marbles
Neo-Darwinism leads us to expect more than just change over time in the fossil record.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
Michael Behe -- Personal Portrait of a Revolutionary
In a short feature, the insurgent ID advocate describes his childhood and family and religious background.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Capuchin Monkey Throws Wrench into Human Evolution Story
The New York Times was quick to minimize the significance of the discovery.
Jonathan Witt
http://www.discovery.org/p/97
Categories: Anti-Science News
Tom Wolfe and the "Kudzu" of "Settled Science"
Writing in Commentary, Andrew Ferguson offers a fantastic review of Wolfe's takedown of Darwin.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
New York Times Pushes Suicide by Starvation
Geriatric depression is a terrible problem in our society.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Philosophers to debate evolution; scientists protest
Joel Velasco of Texas Tech University will debate Paul Nelson of the Discovery Institute on the topic, “Is Darwin’s theory flourishing or floundering?” according to an article by Victoria Cavazos in Hilltop Views, the student newspaper of St. Edward’s University of Austin, Texas. We will not discuss whether it is floundering or foundering; it is doing neither, and 11 science faculty expressed their opposition to the debate, which they called a “debate.” The signatories to...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Climate science and fetal-tissue research under attack
Interesting and important program, Science in the crosshairs, on Science Friday today. Host Ira Flatow interviewed Michael Mann of hockey-stick fame, virologist Carolyn Coyne, Lauren Kurtz of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, and surgery resident Eugene Gu, who is also the founder of a startup called Ganogen. The impetus for the program, or at least one of the impetuses, was a blizzard of subpoenas issued by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Chrysoperla sp.
Photograph by Susan Gilman. Eggs of Chrysoperla sp. – green lacewing....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Plan to defend against war on science
I just received an e-mail (along with half a million of my best friends) from Shawn Otto, the founder of sciencedebate.org, touting his recent article, “A plan to defend against the war on science,” in Scientific American. I thought it was a good article, but a plan it is not; the “plan” shows up in the second-last paragraph and says only, There are solutions, however. Sciencedebates.org [sic] is certainly a start. Evidence shows the public...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Ark Park as obstacle to scientific understanding among religious public
Dan Phelps, President of the Kentucky Paleontological Society, invites us to watch a YouTube presentation of a paper he and his colleagues, Kent Ratajeski and Joel Duff, presented at the recent national meeting of the Geographical Society of America. Watch it and, as Professor Ratajeski says, you can save the $40 admission fee, plus the $10 parking fee. And you will also find certain creationist myths debunked by these scientists, two of whom, Professors...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Notophthalmus viridescens
Photograph by Barbara Gilman. Notophthalmus viridescens – red eft, Monroe, New York. The red eft is a juvenile stage of the eastern newt. We used to see many of them in that area, but now they have become uncommon. While we are on the subject of evolution, eft and newt, the words, share a common ancestor. The middle English word for newt was ewte, depending whose spelling you like, and I assume the double-u was...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
