Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

character

WesternBluebirdonBranch
Photo credit: Pranav Tadepalli, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

What Is Lost with the Rise of AI

Thoreau wrote, "A person's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town." That's what we're losing. Read More ›
gift for Professor Dave
Photo: A gift for Professor Dave, via YouTube (screenshot).

“Professor Dave” and the Art of Projection

If I ever get asked to write a chapter on projection for a psychology textbook, Dave Farina’s outrageously disrespectful performance will be exhibit A. Read More ›
Drosophila melanogaster
Photo: Drosophila melanogaster, by Sanjay Acharya, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Puzzle of Hox Gene Homology — With Parsimony Taking the Hit 

I am old enough to remember when, during the cladistics revolution, parsimony was the Final Referee with the Loudest Whistle. Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
Photo credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel via Unsplash.

Martin Luther King on the Primacy of Idea over Material

It’s a necessary effort to stop oneself from longing for the great men and women of the past, even just the past century. Read More ›

From Charles Darwin, a Wonderful Lesson in Character

If such a break between old colleagues happened now, the results would likely be very different. Read More ›

Science as Astrology: A Gene for, or Rather Against, Virginity?

Sometimes it seems much of the most hyped research is about relieving us of the burden of personal moral responsibility. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute