Month: January 2014
If Chemistry Can Be Wrong, How Much More Evolutionary Theory?
Chemistry is one of the hard sciences, but even a hard science can crack under pressure.
Flying Censorship Monster Crashes in Kansas
There is a funny thing about censorship; once it starts it doesn’t know where to stop.
When Machines Collide
Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution Is True got upset that someone damaged the fender of his car and then drove off.
Another Notable Explosion: Has Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery,” the Origin of Flowering Plants, Been Solved?
The Cambrian explosion isn’t the only explosive event in the fossil record that disturbed Charles Darwin.
But Who Needs Reality-Based Thinking Anyway? Not the New Cosmologists
A question arises: If, in the multiverse (especially the many worlds version) everything possible is true, why do cosmologists trash traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs? Because there is a critical catch …