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There's No Grand Unity Called "Science"
In truth, there are only individual fields of study, some of which deserve being called sciences, while others arguably do not.
Ralph Dave Westfall
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Kidney's Irreducibly Complex Systems
The kidney may not be as sophisticated as the brain or the liver, but it definitely has a lot of roles to play.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
When Atheists Meet Creationism, You Get Creatheism
It is not a word that rolls easily off the tongue. But I am at a loss for one that better describes the atheists Daniel Jackson describes.
Brendan Dixon
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Responding to Animal Deaths, and What That Says About Humans
Can it really be true that we are still talking about Harambe the gorilla, who died on May 28?
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Placenta Problem: How Common Descent Fails
Philosopher Vincent Torley (and Professor Josh Swamidass) have been trying to persuade me that common descent is the only rational view to affirm.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
California Hospitals Are Opting Out of Assisted Suicide
Here's the very bad news: California has legalized assisted suicide. What's the somewhat good news?
Wesley J. Smith
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism
Categories: Anti-Science News
Stephen Meyer Asks: There Will Always Be an England...Or Will There?
It was at Cambridge University that Dr. Meyer incubated his Darwin skepticism and began to develop his arguments for ID.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Opossum's Tale: The Torley Saga, Cont.
I'll make this simple. The evidence for synteny in opossums and chickens is good. Surprised?
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
In the Evolution Debate, Not Listening Happens in One Direction, Not Two
An eloquent post from Terry Teachout, the Wall Street Journal theater critic, might as well be a commentary on Doug Axe's observations this morning.
David Klinghoffer
http://www.discovery.org/p/209
Categories: Anti-Science News
Public Opinion Is the Ultimate Peer Review
People aren't stupid. Science is a public enterprise, and public acceptance has always been its most significant seal of approval.
Douglas Axe
http://biologicinstitute.org/
Categories: Anti-Science News
Oh, Deer: Mammals Use Magnetic Navigation, Too
Even deer know how to respond to the silent force surrounding the earth.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
A chance to help NCSE's archives!
NCSE's archives house a unique trove of material on the creationism/evolution controversy, and we regard it as part of our mission to preserve it for posterity — as well as for occasions such as Kitzmiller v. Dover, where NCSE's archives helped to establish the creationist antecedents of the "intelligent design" movement. And we are beginning to amass a similar trove of material on disputes over climate change education.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Florida's Funny Numbers
Brandon Haught at Florida Citizens for Science does a deeper dive on the educational assessments coming out of the Florida Department of Education (DOE). The DOE says that student performance in science improved by a percentage point this past year. Haught shows that they redefined science performance in order to have an improvement, no matter how slight....
Wesley R. Elsberry
http://www.antievolution.org
Categories: Pro-Science News
New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved -- It Arose as a Solution
This is teleological thinking. Somewhere Aristotle is smiling.
Cornelius Hunter
Categories: Anti-Science News
Having a BLAST: The Torley Saga, Cont.
There has been an ongoing discussion between Dr. Vincent Torley, a philosopher, and myself on the subject of pseudogenes, synteny, and common descent.
Ann Gauger
http://www.biologicinstitute.org/people
Categories: Anti-Science News
Defects on Purpose Make Butterfly Wings Shine
Highly ordered structures with "defect engineering" can enhance the properties of materials, including the wings of butterflies.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Intelligent Design Is a Protest Movement Against Homogenized Thought
Watch this parody of a TED talk. It's very funny, and true, but also suggests a more serious point.
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Is Genome Grammar Just a Figure of Speech?
A paper about DNA expression refers to its grammar and syntax. How far can we take the comparison to written text?
Evolution News & Views
Categories: Anti-Science News
Why Should Evolutionary Biology Be So Different?
Joseph LeConte, professor of geology at the University of California, provides an insight into the way most scientists think about evolution.
Granville Sewell
Categories: Anti-Science News
Liver Function and Its Effects
By using Tim's case, we will see what would have happened to our earliest ancestors without any one of them.
Howard Glicksman
Categories: Anti-Science News
