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Maroon Bells
Maroon Bells, Aspen, Colorado....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Jellyfish Sense Their Environment for Controlled Migration
The humble jellyfish doesn't just drift with the waves. It knows where it is and where its neighbors are.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Aristotle on the Immateriality of Intellect and Will
This argument of the peripatetic pagan became a cornerstone of the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic understanding of the mental powers of the soul.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
Lucky Us: Turning the Copernican Principle on Its Head
Far from perpetuating the caricature of science versus faith, these results fit well with a theistic view of the universe.
Daniel Bakken
Categories: Anti-Science News
No Spin: Endogenous Retroviral Sequences Are Important for Brain Function, and Aren't Junk
Ann Gauger recently wrote an excellent piece about interpreting scientific writings minus all the unnecessary evolutionary gloss.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Giant panda cubs to be featured on PBS
A new PBS series, Earth: A new wild, will highlight China’s breeding of giant pandas with the intention of introducing them into the wild. One goal of the series is to demonstrate that humans and nature are interdependent, according to its producer, M. Sanjayan. The 5-part series will begin on February 4. You may see a 1.5-min clip from the show at the link above. You may also see photographs of newborn panda triplets here....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Ark Park attendance estimates way down
Ark Park attendance is estimated to be no more than 640,000 visitors in its best year, down from 1.24 million, according to a report by Tom Loftus in The (Kentucky) Courier-Journal. That is not as bad as it appears – or as good as it appears, depending how you look at it – considering that the project has been scaled back from $172.5 million with many additional attractions to $73 million without. The Kentucky Secular...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Recalling the Wannsee Conference
"They must be dealt with appropriately, since, representing the fruit of natural selection, they are to be regarded as the core of a new Jewish revival."
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
Media Wrongly Claim Indiana Academic Freedom Bill Opens the Door to Intelligent Design
Academic freedom bills are only intended to cover topics that are already in the curriculum. Topics that are not in the curriculum (like intelligent design) are not covered by such legislation.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Your Computer Doesn't Know Anything
It is remarkable how much damage has been done to our understanding of our world by materialist metaphysics.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Many Faces of Science Censorship
Each year, evolution enthusiasts, evangelizing atheists, and Religious Left activists celebrate Charles Darwin's birthday, February 12, as "Darwin Day."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
In Light of New BIO-Complexity Paper, Maintaining Neo-Darwinism Means Rejecting Established Methods of Historical Science
The typical response from evolutionists is that perhaps ancient enzymes were different, and more readily mutable to acquire new functions.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Comparing the Odds: The Seahawks Game Versus...Evolution?
Even the most die-hard Seattle fans would agree that the odds of last week's Seahawks win were quite small.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Biologic Institute's Groundbreaking Peer-Reviewed Science Has Now Demonstrated the Implausibility of Evolving New Proteins
Darwin observed that his theory "breaks down" when large leaps of complexity are needed in order to provide some advantage.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
It Takes Great Faith to Be an Astrobiologist
When you strip away the hype and false assumptions in origin-of-life literature, what are you left with?
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Darwin's Doubt Hits the 600 Review Mark on Amazon
That makes Darwin's Doubt the most reviewed book on the topic of biological origins among those listed on the Amazon website.
Andrew McDiarmid
http://www.evolutionnews.org
Categories: Anti-Science News
Nothing Could Be Finer than Studying Intelligent Design, in Seattle in July: Summer Seminars Are Coming
The seminars are designed for upper-division undergraduates and graduate students, but each year we reserve a few spaces for a cohort of professors, scientists, teachers, pastors, and professionals.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Geese Can Fly Over Mt. Everest without Oxygen Tanks
Geese are not lightweight birds, but they can migrate right over the highest mountains in the world without special equipment.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Antievolution bill imminent in Montana
A Montana legislator, Clayton Fiscus (R-District 46), is preparing to introduce a bill purporting to "emphasize critical thinking in instruction related to controversial scientific theories on the origin of life" such as "biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, random mutation, natural selection, DNA, and fossil discoveries."
Categories: Pro-Science News
Antievolution legislation in Oklahoma
Senate Bill 665 (document), styled the Oklahoma Science Education Act, is the third antiscience bill of the year.
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