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Julia Roberts Promotes "Subhumanism"
Even conservation groups -- a noble cause -- now seethe with an anti-humanism that is both nihilistic and destructive.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
All in All, Not a Great Day for neo-Darwinism
The major finding in the Nature article to which Casey Luskin referred earlier is, if anything, evidence AGAINST neo-Darwinian evolution.
Jonathan Wells
http://www.discovery.org/p/41
Categories: Anti-Science News
Evolution Within Limits: Nature Study Identifies Genetic Basis for Galápagos Finch Beak Variation
Decades ago researchers Peter and Rosemarie Grant conducted painstaking research on finches in the Galápagos Islands.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Homo erectus "Used Shells for Tool Production and Engraving"
The shell's faintly visible "zig zag" triggered an inference to intelligent design.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
Test of Functional Sequence Space Shows Less Tolerance for Mutations than Expected
Mutational pathways to functional variants are accessible in theory more than in practice.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Problem 9: Neo-Darwinism Struggles to Explain the Biogeographical Distribution of Many Species
One of the most severe biogeographical puzzles for Darwinian theory is the origin of South American monkeys, called "platyrrhines."
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
A Firewall Between Science and Culture? Questions and Answers with John West, Author of Darwin Day in America
"Darwin Day provides a metaphor for how our public policy and culture have been influenced by Darwinian biology and similar kinds of reductionist science."
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is Jahi McMath Brain Dead?
Brain death is an easy diagnosis to make (I've made it hundreds of times).
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
Squid Recodes Its Own DNA
Researchers at Tel Aviv University were not planning on shaking a pillar of Darwinism when they found something interesting.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Chinese pandas have canine distemper
Four pandas in a captive breeding population have died of canine distemper, one is “stable,” and four are “sick,” according to an article in today’s Science magazine. The pandas have been quarantined, and close contact with tourists, who may carry the disease, has been eliminated. The authorities have also repaired fences to keep dogs out. There is, fortunately, no indication that the disease has spread to a wild breeding population, which is apparently on the...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Chelepteryx collesi
Photograph by Jim Foley. Chelepteryx collesi – white-stemmed gum moth, Canberra, Australia. Mr. Foley writes, “The caterpillar is about 12 cm long! Yet another member of the Australian fauna you don’t want to mess with. … We seem to have more venomous stuff than most places: lots of snakes, stonefish, spiders, jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, etc., not to mention the crocodiles and sharks.”...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Lying, fake supplements, and the placebo effect
A somewhat outraged (but entirely justified) article by Timothy Egan in the Times reminded me of an interview I heard the other day on Fresh Air. First, the Egan article: Mr. Egan is properly outraged at the New York Attorney General’s finding that dietary “supplements” sold by major retailers often contain none of the “active ingredient.” Sorry, the scare quotes are mine, not Mr. Egan’s, but I think they are entirely apt. Indeed, the fact...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Tenth annual Evolution Weekend; Darwin's birthday
The tenth annual Evolution Weekend, February 13-15, is almost upon us. To check out what’s going on in your neighborhood, click here. This year’s theme is Science and Religion in Dialogue: Past, Present, and Future. The Evolution Weekend website notes, Evolution Weekend is an opportunity for serious discussion and reflection on the relationship between religion and science. An ongoing goal has been to elevate the quality of the discussion on this critical topic, and to...
Matt Young
http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung
Categories: Pro-Science News
Share the Trailer: Scientism in the Age of Obama
Political scientist John G. West explores the misuse of science in American culture during the Obama years.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Netherlander Euthanasia Contagion
How and why the euthanasia monster broke its fetters to turn the Netherlands into ground zero for the culture of death.
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Problem 8: Differences Between Vertebrate Embryos Contradict the Predictions of Common Ancestry
Biology textbooks typically portray the embryos of different groups of vertebrates as starting off development in a highly similar fashion, reflecting common ancestry.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
For National Center for Science Education, Why Is It So Hard Just to State the Facts?
Earlier this week, my colleague Casey Luskin reported on the academic freedom bill being considered by the South Dakota legislature.
Donald McLaughlin
http://www.discovery.org/p/611
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Lincoln-Darwin Myth Revisited
Did Abe Lincoln really read and admire Darwin's On the Origin of Species? In a word, no.
John G. West
http://www.discovery.org/p/18
Categories: Anti-Science News
National Catholic Register: "The Notion of Intelligent Design Is the Logical Complement of Scientific Research"
Darwin Day 2015 is a good day to be Catholic -- or I imagine it must be for our Catholic colleagues and readers.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
On Evolution, Vatican Newspaper Gets It Mostly Right
I think Father Polvani has been reading Steve Meyer's books.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
