Category: Science
Not Enough Evidence: Casey Luskin on Recent Homo naledi Claims
They claim that the small-brained species had high intelligence and engaged in activities like burying their dead, using fire, and engaging in cave wall art.
How NOT to Argue Against Irreducible Complexity
This roundworm produces non-flagellated sperm, though these sperm cells are amoeboid, meaning that they move by extending and retracting protrusions.
How Media Helped to Corrupt Science
Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science!
A “Prepared Mind” for Alfred Russel Wallace
Although Wallace receded into the deep recesses of my memory, I had what Pasteur called “the prepared mind.”
Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust
There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down.