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Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Read More ›
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Image: Kepler-442b (per the artist's imagination) along side Earth, by Ph03nix1986, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare

So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described? Read More ›
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Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
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Image: Screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

Tyson and Cosmos Sound the Climate Alarm Again

During the present coronavirus threat we can learn some valuable lessons about model predictions. Read More ›
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Life’s Hard Stop: Fortune? Or Foresight?

Here’s another “incredibly fortunate” thing about the Cambrian explosion and about evolution generally. Read More ›
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Indoctrination or Debate? How to Teach Evolution

A course in “Science and Nonsense” is intended to persuade, to herd students toward approved opinions. Read More ›
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Does Barcoding DNA Reveal a Single Human Ancestral Pair?

I don’t think the study can claim all the things it does based on the evidence they have. Read More ›
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The Forgotten Civil Right

In resisting bullies and censors, free speech advocates have done important work. They need, however, to add science to their range of concerns. Read More ›
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For This Physicist, “Overthrowing” Darwinism Is on the Table

ID is a rival theory, a scientific theory, doing the normal work that scientific ideas must do to supplant a currently dominant idea. Read More ›

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