Category: Science
World Celebrates as Inky the Octopus, Escape Artist, Wins Permanent Liberty
We’ve noted in the past some of the evolutionary enigmas of these beautiful animals.
Every Really Interesting Science Story Is About Human Exceptionalism
Two headlines from one day’s news — about space exploration and biological evolution — will illustrate.
First They Came for the Climate Skeptics
…and I did not speak out/Because I was not a climate skeptic.
Denton’s Challenge: Are Leaf Shapes Adaptive?
Evolutionary botanists try to give adaptive reasons for the wide variety of leaf shapes that Michael Denton argues challenge Darwinian functionalism.
From Atheist Jeffrey Shallit, a Telling Response on the Origin of Life
Shallit is a computer scientist at the University of Waterloo whom we’ve dealt with here on occasion before.