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This Science Educator Could Do with a Little More Science Education
Amanda Glaze seems like a personable, sympathetic, and intelligent woman who would make an excellent teacher.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Return of the Blind Watchmaker
Nature lets slip a comparison between what biochemical engineers make and what blind nature supposedly accomplished.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
High Tech, Low Life -- The Amazing Flagellum
Compare the flagellum with top Olympic swimmers, with a goldfish, and a sailfish.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Medical Martyrdom in Switzerland
A Christian nursing home is threatened with the loss of charitable tax status if administrators refuse to permit assisted suicide.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Comparing Drones and Swifts, Swifts Win, Hands Down
"Their performance is ridiculous compared with these birds," a Swedish scientist told a reporter.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Burj Khalifa -- A Big Example of Biomimetics
For the world's tallest skyscraper, the inspiration from a desert flower was not merely aesthetic or ornamental.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Fact-Check: Louisiana's Science Education Act Does NOT Authorize Teaching Creationism
Vox repeats the mistake of many media sources, mischaracterizing an academic freedom law as authorizing instructors to teach creationism.
Sarah Chaffee
Categories: Anti-Science News
On the Origin of Brains
Evolve brains in the Cambrian explosion? Just assume they come in with a bang. Somehow.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Artificial Eggs Used to Make Living Animals
New technologies could have a huge impact on perceptions of what it means to be human.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
You've Come a Long Way, Behe
Critiques and challenges to Darwin's Black Box are in the yard waste bin of biology.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
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
