Tag: sex
Should We Teach Evolution as a Sensitive Issue?
That’s what priest and professor of science education Michael Reiss argues.
Professor: Loving a Robot Is Healthy Because of…Evolution
A Japanese company, Gatebox, evidently felt that Alexa from Amazon isn’t disturbing enough as something to have around your house.
Can Sex Explain Evolution?
We are still stuck for a mechanism that replaces intelligence.
The Persistent Enigma of Sexual Reproduction
Coyne begins this section with a description of the evolutionary costs of sex.
Exotic Science and Theology in Rome
This week’s conference in Rome on Darwin and evolution, nominally sponsored by the Gregorian University and Notre Dame “under the High Patronage of the Pontifical Council on Culture,” has a public relations budget to promote some conclusions that would seem to vary from the positions of Pope Benedict. The Council on Culture has little or no funding of its own for such science conferences and has had to accept non-Vatican funding — and the guidance and other strings that go with it. Intelligent design scientists not only are not present, as a consequence, but their views were misrepresented and trashed ahead of time by the conference organizers. Instead, alongside some rather interesting speakers, you will hear a parade of atheists, Read More ›