Month: May 2015
Charles Krauthammer Is for Human Exceptionalism, but I’d Rather Have Evidence than Mere Intuition
“If the mating habits of the Arctic caribou have to be disturbed so we can produce 1 million barrels of oil a day…, I say: Apologize to the amorous herd, then drill.”
For Its Moral Ideals, Evolutionary Materialism “Freeloads” from Christianity
A few years ago, a Mass was composed titled “Missa Charles Darwin” (Missa means Mass), with the texts from Scripture having been replaced by excerpts from Darwin’s writings.
The Deeper Issues of the Worm Video Debate: P.Z. Myers’s Misdirection
Recently, both Jerry Coyne and P.Z. Myers posted criticisms of the new video from Discovery Institute, “How to Build a Worm.” Quelle surprise, they didn’t like it.
Major Advance in Revealing the Dawn of Complex Life? Sorry, It’s a Little Premature to Break Out the Champagne
What they isolated from the mud deep under the ocean was DNA that has some resemblance to eukaryotes in some features but is missing other features.
A Simple Transition to Multicellularity — Not!
Volvox is a small spheroid green alga that lives in ponds, making its living by photosynthesis as plants do.