Tag: mathematics
How Frogs and Fish “Count”
We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds
Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: The Environment as a Source of Information
Take a simple example, one that Rosenhouse finds deeply convincing and emblematic for biological evolution.
Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Appealing to the Unwashed Middle
Rosenhouse’s book is objectively bad. It purports to be a critique of mathematics as used by ID proponents and of my mathematical work in particular.
Cyclic Universe Can’t Avoid a Cosmic Beginning
The recent flutter over whether the James Webb Space Telescope’s data stream is a plus or a minus for the Big Bang raised interesting cosmological issues.