Author: Rob Sheldon

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial wombs, biological information, Charles Darwin, elephant, embryos, Financial Times, gene editing, George Church, ghost lineages, horizontal gene transfer, intelligent design, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, Siberia, Texas, viruses, woolly mammoth}

What “Resurrecting” the Woolly Mammoth Would Mean for Darwinism

_{Rob Sheldon
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Intelligent design would become the most likely hypothesis to abductively explain the data of life's history. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
June 5, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, collaboration, Darwinists, evolution, intelligent design, scholars, science, University of Pennsylvania, wokeness}

Will This Proposal “Fix Science”?

_{Rob Sheldon
June 5, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

There are many, many ways that science has stopped functioning. Certainly, one of them is that it incentivizes the wrong things. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, David Coppedge, evolution, Evolution News, genes, hybridization, intelligent design, origins, sex, species, Star Trek, Starships, Stephen Barr, symmetry, universal common descent}

Now, with Starships, Evolutionary Origins Become Still More Difficult

_{Rob Sheldon
April 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

1}

So it appears that self-contained gene transposon "packages" permit transfer of genes from one species to another Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, Bible, Carl Sagan, faith and science, leaders, Maryland, NASA, photos, press release, women}

Sworn in on a Copy of…a Carl Sagan Book?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

2}

Of course no one "believes in Carl Sagan," but that is exactly the point — the oath has no teeth. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Arctic Ocean, Asian elephant, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, passenger pigeon, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic, wooly mammoth}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

6}

The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysics, Big Bang, CERN, Cosmic Egg, cosmic origins, creation, Energy, Ernst Mayr, evolution, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, matter, planets, stars, universe, University of Rochester}

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

_{Rob Sheldon
March 10, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Planetology

2}

The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 19, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Science
Tagged
, Big Think, carbon, decoherence, electric fields, electrons, Energy, Ethan Siegel, fields, graphene, Lawrence Krauss, matter, particle physics, particles, photon, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, universe}

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

_{Rob Sheldon
September 19, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology, Science

6}

In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
September 9, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Tagged
, constants, cosmic inflation, earth, galaxies, geochronology, graduate school, Hubble constant, Hubble’s Law, rocks, speculation, universe, University of Maryland}

How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?

_{Rob Sheldon
September 9, 2022

Astronomy, Cosmology

2}

A correspondent asked me recently how we know the age of the universe. The answer is calculated from the inverse of the Hubble constant. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
October 1, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, Aristotle, carbon, Charles Darwin, Cyanobacteria, Dr. Pangloss, Fred Hoyle, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, metazoans, meteorites, Michael Denton, natural selection, optimization, Paul Davies, purpose, quantum mechanics, satire, The Miracle of the Cell, Voltaire, wonder}

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

_{Rob Sheldon
October 1, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physics

5}

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Metaphysics
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, astronomers, biologists, calculation, Drake equation, evolution, inflation, meteorites, monomers, Nature (journal), nucleotides, reagents, RNA world, snowflakes, Tomonori Totani, universe, University of Tokyo}

An Astronomer Considers the Origin of Life, with Sobering Results

_{Rob Sheldon
April 23, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Metaphysics, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

7}

In my opinion, only one tooth fairy is allowed per theory, and this one has at least four, making its irrelevance nearly guaranteed. Read More ›