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SETI Astronomer Says Life’s “Not All That Special” Even as His Own Program Suggests Otherwise
SETI Institute has yet to detect any echo of extra-terrestial intelligence. That’s a big part of the reason that SETI had to shut down, for lack of funding, its Allen Telescope Array.
Please, NASA, No More Galileos!
The David Coppedge case stands as an egregious instance of intolerance toward scientific dissent, so much so that it merits your attention and action, for Caltech runs JPL under contract with NASA, a government agency, and is thus indirectly accountable to the electorate, by which I mean you, dear reader.
Lynn Margulis, Acclaimed Biologist and Critic of Neo-Darwinism, RIP
“No evidence in the vast literature of heredity changes shows unambigious evidence that random mutation itself, even with geographical isolation of populations, leads to speciation. Then how do new species come into being? How do cauliflowers descend from tiny, wild Mediterranean cabbagelike plants, or pigs from wild boars?”
Phillip Johnson on the Scientific Nature of Opposition to Darwinian Theory
Johnson’s work showed that there are credible criticisms of Darwinian evolution that come from a strictly scientific standpoint rather than a religious one.
Darwin on Trial: The Implications for Neuroscience and Ethics
Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland cites Prairie Voles to illustrate how chemical processes inform morality. Prairie Voles with a greater number of oxytocin receptors were monogamous while those with fewer such receptors were not.