What is that “different direction” that Steve Meyer refers to? It looks less like a twilight and more like a dawn. Source Read More Evolution News
Category: Science
Tonight, New “Long Story Short” Video Delivers a Dose of Reality for Origin-of-Life Researchers
In the time of the early Earth, Airgas, the supplier from which the researchers obtained their materials, was not around. Source Read More Evolution News
Croft, Continued: I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens
Philosopher James Croft happens to think that absent background knowledge, “Aliens!” would be a weakly justified hypothesis. Source Read More Evolution News
Jordan Peterson Discovers the God Hypothesis
It’s refreshing to see such intellectual humility from a figure with Peterson’s status. But not all his followers were thrilled. Source Read More Evolution News
Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond
Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Source Read More Evolution News
Croft, Continued: More Thoughts on Meyer’s Debate with a Skeptic
I think he’s mistaken my emphasis in the specific car break-in examples I gave, namely that the burglars’ behavior was odd and unpredictable. Source Read More Evolution News
Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism
Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Source Read More Evolution News
Wild Rice Sues to Stop Repair of Oil Pipeline
Two years ago the Ojibwe tribe granted wild rice the “right to exist,” which could be said to be a synonym for a right to life. Source Read More Evolution…
Chances That Life Originated Without Intelligent Design? “Zero,” Says Physicist Eric Hedin
The idea of setting a percentage to the chances of ID being true reminds me of Hedin’s fellow physicist, Nobel Prize-winner Brian Josephson. Source Read More Evolution News
Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step
The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Source Read More Evolution News