Tag: National Academy of Sciences
When It Comes to Origins Science, Is PNAS Really “Ready When You Are”?
Kevin Williamson imagines that scientists are free to “slug it out” in journals and other academic settings, so that the truth reliably emerges.
Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machines
René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.”
Biophysicist Ken Dill: Protein Machines Are “Real Machines. That’s Not a Metaphor”
The implication of design, while no doubt unintended, is so powerful it almost doesn’t need to be spelled out.
Updating the Drake Equation
The Drake equation is simply the product of a set of factors, estimating the number of active, technologically advanced, communicating civilizations in our galaxy.
What Evolution “Controversy”? Scott Turner Gets High Praise from Quarterly Review of Biology
If you want to know what scientists themselves think about the current status of evolutionary theory, you have to look behind the curtain.