A theme in the interview is the dubious role of elites, who stand out for their readiness to surrender their critical faculties when Science Says to do so. Source Read…
Category: Science
Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?
Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Source Read More Evolution News
Big Bang: While the West Reeled
While the West reeled from America’s stock market crash of 1929, another crisis was brewing in the field of cosmology. Source Read More Evolution News
Luskin Versus Cardinale: A Wonderful Debate About “Junk DNA”
Everyone did a great job, and the conversation was science-packed from beginning to end. Not one word of invective, and indeed highly cordial. Source Read More Evolution News
Stephen Meyer Interview with Piers Morgan: Science, God, and the Loss of a Parent
Meyer discusses the recent loss of his mother to dementia. Talking about grief leads to a powerful point, that may be unfamiliar to many viewers. Source Read More Evolution News
Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion
The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Source Read More Evolution News
“Junk DNA” from Three Perspectives: Some Key Quotes
Many of these quotes are from mainstream scientific papers, books, or book chapters of a technical nature. Source Read More Evolution News
Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness
A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Source Read More Evolution News
Here’s a Far from Exhaustive (Yet Still Exhausting) List of Papers Discovering Function for “Junk” DNA
The list contains over 800 papers which are divided into categories according to the type of genetic element for which they focus on finding function. Source Read More Evolution News
Debate: Casey Luskin Versus Rutgers Biologist Dan Cardinale, Thursday, May 2
Okay, this should be interesting. The question up for discussion: “Is the Human Genome Largely Junk DNA?” Source Read More Evolution News