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Category: Science
Not Out of Context: Comments on Hawks et al. (2000)
The lead author is John Hawks, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who has a popular blog on paleoanthropology. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Addressing More Icons of Theistic Evolution
Professor Kuebler doesn’t acknowledge the pattern of explosions in the fossil record, but he does cite a supposed transitional form. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
New Long Story Short Video Explores How Non-Experts Can Assess Scientific Questions
A couple years ago I reported on some of Jim Tour’s debates and how they raise the question of how non-experts can determine who is right during complex scientific debates. As I…
Bad Synteny Arguments Claim “No Functional Reason” for Genomic Arrangements
To skip to the punchline, Kuebler says that “species as distantly related as humans and mice share a huge array of synteny blocks.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning
Phil Halper has argued against a position that no one holds, and his argument as a whole lays claim to the very capacity his objection denies. Source Read More Science…
Theistic Evolution Book Cites Debunked Icons
Professor Kuebler uses a classical argument for common descent, citing the universality of the genetic code. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Physicist Overstates the “Gradual” Nature of Human Origins in the Fossil Record
We’ve gone back and forth with Dr. Barr many times in the past. Mainstream paleoanthropologists acknowledge that the origin of humans is sudden and abrupt. Source Read More Science and…
More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils
Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Source Read More Science and Culture…
What Is Consciousness For? Sixteen Theories Take a Crack at the Question
It sounds like we do not really know what we are looking for, which will doubtless complicate efforts to find it. Source Read More Science and Culture Today