Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Category: Science
A Friend Asks: For Darwin Skeptics, What Does the Second Law Argument Accomplish?
The only law of science that the development of civilization on a barren planet could violate is the (generalized) second law of thermodynamics. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Irreducible Complexity: A Reply and Challenge to Daniel Stern Cardinale
I invite Stern Cardinale to attempt to provide a plausible evolutionary explanation of the origins of a complex system such as DNA replication. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Gould Said It Was All Contingency and Chance — Well, Maybe Not
Appeals to contingency (i.e., in-principle unrepeatable singularities) disable theory testing. If anything can happen…don’t bother to test, because you can’t. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion
Some of my students argue that humans should be wiped off the face of the earth to make room for the other species. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Revisiting the Dover Case in Light of C. W. Howell’s Recent Book
I am widely quoted (from my public writings), but often Howell misses the mark even when an email to me could have cleared up his confusion. Source Read More Science…
When the Mind is Freed from the Brain
The strong dependency of mind on brain that gets us through everyday life no longer seems to apply when we come to death and dying. Source Read More Science and…
Precision Design Logic Explains Childbirth Better than Darwinism Does
It is only in the last few decades that science has been able to unravel what is going on at the molecular level within the uterus during labor and delivery.…
On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence
In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
In Spain, a Transplant Case Gives Heebie-Jeebies
Euthanasia conjoined with organ harvesting just took a particularly disturbing turn, when a woman was euthanized and had part of her face transplanted. Source Read More Science and Culture Today