Month: December 2016
Dean Kenyon and Academic Freedom — A Case in Point
Something is wrong when a university objects to any probing of the textbook view, on evolution or in any other field.
NASA on Trial: David Coppedge Fell Victim to Anti-ID Zeal at America’s Space Agency
A Team Lead on the Cassini mission to Saturn, Coppedge shared videos on intelligent design with colleagues. Workplace hysteria ensued.
Why Do Monkeys Not Speak? Because They’re Not Human
Once, anatomy was assumed to account for their surprising reticence. No longer.
Silicon-Based Life: If Scientists Repurpose an Enzyme, Is It Intelligent Design?
No living cell we know of produces carbon-silicon bonds, but scientists “evolved” a way to make cells produce them.
Ethics and Embryo Research: Let the Promise-Breaking Begin (Again)
I have come to the conclusion that “the scientists” believe themselves entitled to do what they want, in the way they want.