Month: May 2014
The Meyer-Louis Debate Concludes: Is Intellectual Passivity the Responsible Choice?
“I think we should really take a step back and allow the community of scholars to engage in this and think about these things.”
Gratifyingly, The New Yorker Recognizes Wikipedia’s Tendency to Enshrine Untruths
We’ve devoted many posts to documenting whoppers about Darwinian evolution and intelligent design on Wikipedia.
File Under “Strangely Appropriate Selfies”
Francis Collins and Bill Nye. This one is a keeper.
Human Origins: The War of Trivial Explanations
Darwinian theory, by its very nature, demands this zealous emphasis on isolated, randomly generated characteristics or events — warring trivia, basically.
Code Busting: Genomes Where a "Stop" Sign Means "Go"
Up until now it has been believed that most organisms use the same genetic code to specify how to make proteins.