Category: Science
“Bad Textbooks”: Not Because of Texas, but Despite Texas
In The New York Review of Books, Gail Collins has a piece titled “How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us.”
Anti-ID Philosopher: “Ad Hominem” Arguments “Justified” When Attacking Intelligent Design Proponents
It would be the height of na�vet� to assume that scientists are always (or indeed ever) completely devoid of personal motives unrelated to the scientific question at issue.
RNA Export Is Like Basketball, Only Better
Imagine playing basketball blindfolded, but having an assistant pull the ball through the net when you get close. Now you have an idea how messenger RNA molecules make it out of the nucleus.
Of Monarchs and Protestors
One of the Emory scientists who led the protest against Ben Carson’s appearance as a commencement speaker has a new paper out that doesn’t help evolution.
What Darwin Would Say If He Could Speak to Us Today: Another Perspective
Darwin came to his ideas not by the evidence but by an a priori ideology that dictated methodological naturalism and philosophical materialism.