Month: February 2016
Lawrence Krauss Extols Human Exceptionalism
Many in the life sciences attack human exceptionalism as necessarily predicated on religion. It can be, but isn’t necessarily so.
A Bad Case of Expertitis
The days of extolling objective journalistic discussions of scientific and technocratic issues — always a bit laughable — are clearly over.
Sleepless in Oakland: Big Bang Gives NCSE Staffer Insomnia
The evidence of a beginning to the universe didn’t sit well with British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington, either.
Non-Adaptive Order: An Existential Challenge to Darwinian Evolution
If many of the taxa-defining homologs are non-adaptive, the whole Darwinian enterprise breaks down entirely.
More on How Microbes Make Earth Habitable
Here are further examples of interactions between geology and microbes that make our planet a nice place to live.