Category: Science
Teaching a Parrot Newton’s Principia
Dr. Jeffrey Shallit has some more questions regarding my observation that animals are incapable of abstract thought.
With ENCODE Results, Evolutionary Biologists Are Forced to Wait in Perplexity
They are compelled to live with ambiguity until evolutionary models come along to explain ENCODE’s data.
Can Animals Be Taught Concepts?
With enough cheese snacks on hand, I can train my Bichon Frise to bark when I point to “4” rather than “3” or “5” after I ask “What is 2 + 2?”
Three More Problematic Findings About the Cambrian Explosion
The issues are separate, but they have one thing in common: they create new headaches for Darwinian accounts of the Cambrian explosion.
“Scientific Literacy” with Grandmother Fish?
There are many problems here — and all of them prevent students from truly learning science.