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Kenneth Miller Resists Chloroquine Resistance
The Brown University biologist has posted a reply to my challenge to him.
Michael Behe
http://www.discovery.org/p/31
Categories: Anti-Science News
You Go, Eric Metaxas! Measuring the Improbability of Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Cosmos
Even the origin of our moon, which seems to be necessary in a number of ways for advanced life on Earth, is a fascinating very low probability event.
Daniel Bakken
Categories: Anti-Science News
Still Taking Aim at Eric Metaxas, the Media Underestimate the Degree to which Physicists See Evidence for Intelligent Design
One of his critics is Tobin Grant, a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University.
Casey Luskin
http://www.discovery.org/p/188
Categories: Anti-Science News
The Fundamental Equation of Chemistry Is Itself Fine-Tuned
It is well known that all of the fundamental constants of physics are finely tuned to make life possible in our universe.
Granville Sewell
Categories: Anti-Science News
Me and Jack Kevorkian
Bundy and Gacy were sadists and serial killers, but unlike Kevorkian they didn't start a mass cultural movement.
Michael Egnor
Categories: Anti-Science News
Antievolution legislation in Missouri
Missouri's House Bill 486 (PDF), introduced in the Missouri House of Representatives on January 13, 2015, would confer "academic freedom to teach scientific evidence regarding evolution" to teachers. If enacted, the bill would in effect encourage science teachers with idiosyncratic opinions to teach anything they pleased, and discourage responsible educational authorities from intervening. The bill specifically cites "the theory of biological and hypotheses of chemical evolution" as controversial.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Progress in West Virginia
"The West Virginia Board of Education voted Wednesday to withdraw changes proposed to the state's science education standards," reports the Charleston Gazette (January 14, 2015).
Categories: Pro-Science News
West Virginia to revisit science standards
West Virginia's board of education is to reconsider its decision to undermine the treatment of climate science in its new state science standards at its January 14, 2015, meeting, according to The New York Times (January 13, 2015).
Categories: Pro-Science News
The Origin of Life
Added October 31, 2006:A discussion of the main models on the spontaneous origin of life that aims to show how cellular complexity could have gradually emerged from simple systems - in contrast to the sudden appearance of complexity that creationists claim to have been necessary at the beginning of life. Central issues like the composition of the early atmosphere of the Earth and the origin of the homochirality of amino acids and sugars are reviewed as well.
Categories: Pro-Science News
September 2006 Post of the Month: Irreducible Complexity as an Evolutionary Prediction
Added October 19, 2006:
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The Discovery Institute Quote Mines Stephen Jay Gould
Added October 9, 2006: The newest addition to the Quote Mine Project shows how Casey Luskin of Discovery Institute misrepresents what Gould and others wrote in a brief for Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Awards, Honors, and Favorable Notices for The Talk.Origins Archive
Updated October 9, 2006: Honors won by the TalkOrigins Archive.
Categories: Pro-Science News
The Discovery Institute Quote Mines Judge Jones
Added September 28, 2006: The Discovery Institute selectively quotes Judge Jones' decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District in aid of its "bait and switch" claim of scientific evidence in support of intelligent design.
Categories: Pro-Science News
August 2006 Post of the Month: The Constancy of Constants, Part 2
Added September 18, 2006:
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August 2006 Co-Post of the Month: An Atheist's Defense of Religion
Added September 18, 2006:
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Macroevolution
Updated September 16, 2006: In evolutionary biology today macroevolution is used to refer to any evolutionary change at or above the level of species. It means the splitting of a species into two or the change of a species over time into another. This FAQ has been expanded, updated, illustrated, and rewritten.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Hendren v. Campbell: Decision Against a Creationist Textbook
Added August 20, 2006: A 1977 decision of an Indiana superior court ruling against a textbook produced by the Creation Research Society. In some respects this case resembles a young-earth creationist version of the 2005 Kitzmiller case. Introductory material, links, as well as the full text of the judge's memorandum opinion are provided.
Categories: Pro-Science News
Young-Earth Creationist Helium Diffusion "Dates": Fallacies Based on Bad Assumptions and Questionable Data
Updated July 25, 2006: Young-Earth creationists consider the helium diffusion studies of D. Russell Humphreys and others to be one of their greatest achievements in arguing for a 6,000 year old Earth. A geologist shows that these studies are extensively flawed and include: serious miscalculations in their data, sampling the wrong rock type, failing to eliminate possible contamination, using equations that are based on invalid assumptions and relying on questionable data. Appendices C and D have been added in response to Dr. Humphreys' most recent statements in his January 2006 "Trueorigins" essay.
Categories: Pro-Science News
June 2006 Post of the Month: How Species Originate
Added July 25, 2006:
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