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Antiscience bill dies in Indiana
Indiana's Senate Bill 562 died in the Senate Education and Career Development Committee on February 25, 2015, when the deadline for Senate bills to have their third reading in the Senate passed.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Pygoscelis papua
Photograph by Dan Phelps. Pygoscelis papua – gentoo penguin, Danco Island, Antarctica....
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Does Science Deserve Credit for Moral Progress?
From Michael Shermer, unadulterated scientism and moral myopia.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Looking at Nature with an Engineer's Eye
If intelligent design is a "science stopper," why do researchers continue to publish outstanding papers about "design principles" in nature?
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Hylomorphism as a Metaphysic for Intelligent Design Science
It likely seems strange to many people when they hear some contemporary Thomists critiquing intelligent design on various grounds.
JT Bridges
Categories: Anti-Science News
Shock: A Darwinian Biologist Notices that Evolution Is Irrelevant to Medical Research
Fairy tales about survival of survivors contribute nothing to that or any other research.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
Climate Change and the Poor: Two Events, One Timely Topic, Next Week in Seattle
Come see a free screening of Blue, a provocative documentary that follows one young man's journey to challenge accepted orthodoxy in the area of the environment.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
What a Single Choice of Words Tells You: Walker Was "Very Accepting" in Science Class?
Time Magazine went and interviewed Governor Scott Walker's retired high school teacher.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
"Swarm" Science: Why the Myth of Artificial Intelligence Threatens Scientific Discovery
In the last year, two major well-funded efforts have launched in Europe and in the U.S. aimed at understanding the human brain using powerful and novel computational methods.
Erik J. Larson
Categories: Anti-Science News
New Mexico Science Museum Would Rather Sponsor No Darwin Day Events than a Balanced and Objective One
Suffice to say, this episode provides another illustration of how dogmatic Darwin advocates can be.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Help wanted: Summer interns
NCSE is seeking to hire two summer interns — one full-time, one part-time — to work on science education activism projects, with a particular focus on climate change education.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Improving the Accuracy of Genomic Data
Imagine that you want to analyze the 3.2 billion bases of the human genome. If you recruited every undergraduate student at ASU, all 70,000 of us, to type those data into a spreadsheet, it would still take about 13 hours. So you develop a computer program that analyzes the data for you. But then you find out that your huge data set amplified small errors in your algorithm and gave you the wrong answer. This...
Emily Thompson
http://cartwrig.ht/people/
Categories: Pro-Science News
Regarding Indiana Academic Freedom Bill, Newspapers Need a Lesson in Credible Legal Analysis
If the backers of this bill want to promote the teaching of creationism, they are going about doing it in a strange way.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Amazon Sells Out of Darwin Day in America, but Don't Worry, Here's Where to Get Your Copy
Gee, those went fast.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Problem 10: Neo-Darwinism's Long History of Inaccurate Predictions about Junk Organs and Junk DNA
During the 1925 Scopes trial, biologist Horatio Hackett Newman contended that there are over 180 vestigial organs and structures in the human body.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Under Proposed Law, at Least a Thousand Californians Would Commit Legal Assisted Suicide Each Year
The suicide agenda is moving to places where, if it succeeds, the body bags will really begin to pile up.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
As a Voter, I'm Slightly Insulted by Scott Walker on Evolution
What, you can't be bothered to weigh the evidence on an ultimate question and come up with something thoughtful to say?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Happy Birthday, Alessandro Volta!
Volta stands as another example of a great scientist who saw no difficulty in upholding his Christian faith and pursuing a life of science.
Donald McLaughlin
http://www.discovery.org/p/611
Categories: Anti-Science News
From the Steadily Shrinking Catalogue of "Functionless," "Vestigial" Organs: Now, the Tailbone
The theory of intelligent design does not demand that the coccyx be medically indispensable.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Alan Turing and the New Emergentists
The acclaimed Alan Turing biographical film The Imitation Game is up for multiple Oscars on Sunday.
Erik J. Larson
Categories: Anti-Science News
