Oxford Physiologist Denis Noble: Dissent from Neo-Darwinism Has Passed a “Tipping Point”

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We were wondering when the (often very dramatic) claims made recently in arcane academic texts would begin making more of a splash in the popular media. Source
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

Anthropic Principle, biology, cell's, devolution, earth, Evolution, Fire-Maker, fossil record, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan Witt, Michael Denton, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, scientific discovery, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, The Privileged Planet
The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Source
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What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries to Figure It Out

astrology, Atheism, Christof Koch, creationism, David Chalmers, Evidence, fine-tuning, homeopathy, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Intelligent Design, Kåre Letrud, Massimo Pigliucci, Neuroscience & Mind, Nonsense on Stilts, parapsychology, philosophers, philosophical preference, Philosophy of Pseudoscience, pseudoscience, Skeptical Inquirer, UFOs
One is tempted to wonder whether “room for disagreement” is a polite term for Not Yet Cancelled. Source
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Illuminating the Power of Life

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That which is unique to life alone, which offers the only valid explanation of irreducible complexity, is the manifestation of goal-directed functional logic. Source
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Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

Big Bang, body plan, coordinated mutations, cosmology, Evolution, evolutionary clock, Fossil Friday, Intelligent Design, lizards, Najash rionegrina, paleontology, Patagoniav, population genetics, Singularity, snakes, Stony Brook University, unguided evolution, University of Michigan
The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Source
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Design of the Elements Points to a Theistic Universe

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An innumerable number of features of the natural world show evidence of purpose and intent. Source
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