Category: Science
After Weaponizing Evolution, New Atheists Are Unhappy with Results
Richard Dawkins says he finds it “depressing” that people now think he’s “right-wing,” even a “right-wing extremist,” because he’s anti-woke.
Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?
The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists.
Sanger Fought Disinformation on Intelligent Design “Tooth and Nail” — But Disinformation Won
“I fought … tooth and nail on the question whether Wikipedia articles should dismiss [ID] and other nonstandard scientific theories without a hearing.”
Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?
Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.”
Origin of Life: The Challenge of Achieving Homochirality with Mineral Surfaces
There are sound counterarguments to the plethora of schemes that OOL researchers devise in trying to account for how life could have emerged abiotically.