news aggregator
Troubles in Paradise: an amazing pro-science resource by James Downard (summary and interview)
I would like to introduce everyone to James Downard, and his website Troubles in Paradise (TIP). TIP is available at http://tortucan.wordpress.com/ or http://www.tortucan.com. James Downard is an activist with decades of experience tracking the creationists, stretching back to encounters with Stephen Meyer in Washington state in the early 1990s. In 2010, he did a guest post for PT, “An Ill Wind in Tortuca”, available at: http://pandasthumb.org/archives/201[…]wind-in.html Troubles in Paradise is a massive review of the...
Nick Matzke
http://www.talkdesign.org
Categories: Pro-Science News
How Suicide Advocacy Hurts the Sick
Now, in the wake of the Brittany Maynard media frenzy, meet Maggie Karner.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Walking It Back? Further Reflections on the Response from BioLogos to Darwin's Doubt from BioLogos
President Deborah Haarsma suggests that I mischaracterized the perspective of the organization's reviewers in my response to them.
Stephen C. Meyer
http://www.signatureinthecell.com
Categories: Anti-Science News
Each Cell in Your Body Is a Walled City Besieged by Enemies
The residents of the city are slowly running out of food and water and are in desperate need of new supplies to stay alive.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
More on the Stretched-Rubber Theory of Body Plans
In dispelling the enigma of the Cambrian explosion, this research does not seem to hold out much promise.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Grim Harvest: In Vermont, a Push for Organ Conscription
Presumed consent apparently works well in Spain and some other more communitarian-oriented countries, but it would be a disaster here.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Antiscience bill in Iowa
House File 272, introduced in the Iowa House of Representatives on February 17, 2015, and referred to the House Committee on Education, would, if enacted, prevent Iowa from adopting the Next Generation Science Standards — and part of the stated reason is the NGSS's treatment of evolution and climate change.
Categories: Pro-Science News
NCSE and the Grand Canyon 2015
Explore the Grand Canyon with NCSE! Three seats are still available for NCSE's next excursion to the Grand Canyon — as featured in the documentary No Dinosaurs in Heaven.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Physics trumps biology
Or, perhaps more precisely, Did dark matter kill the dinosaurs?, which is the way that an article in ScienceNOW put it. Readers of PT doubtless know that there have been a half-dozen or so mass extinctions in the history of the earth, and they appear with a periodicity on the order of 30 million years. You can see an early graph here. The vertical arrows are separated by approximately 30 million years. Not every vertical...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Tell me who funded the research ...
… And I will tell you the outcome. I cannot find the origin of that quotation, and I am pretty sure it is not original, but I thought of it when I read this article in Science. In a nutshell, Willie Soon, a part-time employee of the Smithsonian Institution, has published a number of articles linking changes in Arctic air temperature with changes in the sun’s output. His conclusion is at variance with the well...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Q&A in the WASP nest
By Steven Mahone. What would happen if a dyed-in-the-wool secularist was given the opportunity to speak with students from one of the most religiously conservative school districts in the country? Well, I had the privilege of finding out first hand. The Classical Academy (TCA) is an affluent, public charter high school in north Colorado Springs, so imagine my surprise at receiving an invitation to represent the secular and scientific viewpoint for a week-long seminar titled...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
At the Feet of Clio: History Versus Science?
"Consider that science is a portion of history but not the reverse."
Michael Flannery
http://www.discovery.org/p/471
Categories: Anti-Science News
Now Head Transplants? Onward and Upward with Transhumanism
A cover story for New Scientist reports, "First human head transplant could happen in two years."
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
What the Assisted Suicide Debate Has to Do with Evolution
It's not possible to remind yourself too often how evolutionary thinking ramifies through the culture.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
More on the Advantage Physicians, Engineers Enjoy Compared to Evolutionary Biologists
"There are infinitely more ways to get it wrong than to get it right."
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
No, Despite Often-Heard Claims, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Is Not Evolution
The treatment of infectious diseases with antibiotics is a superb example of intelligent design principles applied to medical research.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
How the Body Works: Intelligent Design in Action
Engineers and physicians have a special place in the community of thinkers and scholars who have elaborated the argument for intelligent design.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
Let The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik Read Our Series on the 10 Top Problems with Darwinian Evolution, and Then Give Us His Thoughts
What is the nature of the "debate" around Darwinism? That's a question worth talking about.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Historian Asks, "What if Other Human Species Had Survived?"
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to a simple but profound question.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Duplicating a Power Plant Is No Easy Task
Cell division is mind numbing in complexity. One incredibly complex task is duplicating the power plants of the cell, the mitochondria.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
