Month: March 2016
Science and the "Darkness of the West"
Writing in the London Times, Melanie Phillips is on fire with a righteous indignation at the “dark ages” into which science has fallen.
Bill Nye’s Philistine Materialism
Watch this video from Nye, answering a question from a college philosophy student on whether philosophy is a “meaningless” pursuit.
Think You Can Design a Better Fruit Fly?
You can improve an insect’s flight performance by changing its wing shape, but only at the cost of disrupting other systems.
On Teaching the Evolution Controversy, Misconceptions from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
There is ongoing debate over whether evolutionary mechanisms can explain life’s diversity.
PLOS ONE “Creator” Scandal Enters Witch-hunt Territory
The Chinese editor of the paper by Chinese researchers is smeared for being an Evangelical Christian.