In the wake of the ongoing sexual assault case at Cornell University, school president Michael I. Kotlikoff has banned parties and social events at campus fraternity houses – the latest…
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Tonight on NOVA: From “These Tiny Little Mistakes” — Evolution!
“Life continues to create itself,” “evolution is entirely built on these tiny little mistakes.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”
Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”…
Improved Social Science? Don’t Laugh, It Could Happen
The theme is not unfamiliar: neither the falsehood nor the reasons for it are news. But three efforts at reform are worth knowing about. Source Read More Science and Culture…
Darwinism: Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?
Note from William Dembski: Darwinism: Scientific Inference of Philosophical Preference?, co-edited by Steve Meyer, Jon Buell, and myself, has just been released through Inkwell Press using its amazing book production technology…
Why Young People Are Failing to Date, Marry and Have Kids
It is well established that young adults across the world are increasingly not forming romantic relationships, dating, courting, marrying and having kids. Some have termed the problem a “dating drought.”…
Feds Crack Down Kratom-Related Drugs
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will move four kratom-related drugs to the most restrictive legal category, the DOJ announced Friday, following new HHS guidance. The coming regulations move products with…
When Christians Serve, the Media Often Suspects the Worst
According to a former lobbyist quoted in Tuesday’s Washington Post, we should all be uneasy about Kelly Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife, ministering to female staffers on Capitol Hill. Kelly…
Recent Work: A Theory of Intelligence Metrics
“A standardized inferential method has emerged for SETI, archaeology, forensic science, and the historical sciences generally.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”
Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Source Read More Science and Culture…