Anyone who has studied the history of IQ testing and eugenics will recognize the weaponization of low expectations against people deemed inferior. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Category: Science
Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China
Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive
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
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.…