As ENV readers may know, I wrote an article, "A Second Look at the Second Law," that was reviewed and accepted by Applied Mathematics Letters (AML) in 2011, then withdrawn at the last minute.
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On an almost weekly basis, new research floods in documenting previously unidentified functionality of many different classes of non-coding DNA elements.
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Michael Shermer has a reason for clinging to scientific triumphalism. Anything less would cede ground to his opponents, the skeptics of his skepticism.
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Keep repeating to yourself: "There is no controversy over evolution, there is no controversy over evolution, there is no controversy over evolution..."
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All simians and primates except humans are infected with certain groups of lineage-specific viruses. How did we lose these viruses if we are descended from primate ancestors who had them?
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Even if it takes only 30 or 40 specific trait changes to move from primate to human, and hundred of mutations, the time required would be astronomical.
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Hostility to familiar bogeyman -- corporations, the "wealthy," and Christianity -- has driven this influential activist group since it was launched.
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