Tag: machinery
Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism
I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species.
Cicero on Intelligent Design — Sound Familiar?
Yesterday was Cicero’s birthday. To celebrate, here’s my favorite quote from the Roman philosopher.
Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella
The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty?
Even More Mammoth Devolution
The lesson from woolly mammoth studies, and many other ones, is that it is much faster and easier to break or blunt a gene than to improve or make a new one.
In Praise of Copper, a Gift from Nature
If the conductivity of copper were ten times less, wires would have to be ten times the cross-sectional area to provide the same conductivity.