“Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper.” Source Read More Science and…
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Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To
Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Source Read More Science and…
Tony Dungy: “I am pro-life and I’m not going to be ashamed to say that.”
Was legendary NFL football coach Tony Dungy fired by NBC because of his Christian faith and related pro-life convictions? During a podcast interview with former ESPN host Sage Steele, the…
Washington Ballot Measures Protect Girls Sports and Parental Rights
Washington state has two important measures on the ballot this November: Initiative 26-638 would protect fairness in girls sports, and Initiative 26-001 protects parental rights in education. Initiative 638, “Protect…
Canada Won’t Allow Euthanasia Solely for Mental Illness, But Will for Dementia
Editorial note: The terms euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are often used interchangeably and will be in this article. Euthanasia refers to a healthcare worker intentionally and directly administering drugs to…
The Profound Evil of Men Having Babies
Men having babies? Isn’t that a biological impossibility? Of course it is. But that isn’t stopping a national organization from calling itself precisely that. Men Having Babies (MHB) is a…
My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago
After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Source Read More Science and…
NY Times Aside, “Babies Are Obviously Conscious,” Says Dr. Egnor
If there an “active scientific debate” about it, then could it really be that the answer isn’t so clear? Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Found: Oldest Evidence for an Organismal Magnetic Compass
The evidence exists in so-called magnetofossils found in marine sediments that have been dated to 97 million years old. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Conservation Laws and Life: If It Looks Designed, It Is
In the early 20th century, a remarkable discovery came to light that showed a foundational basis for the conservation laws of physics. Source Read More Science and Culture Today