25Nov 2024 by Post

Francis Collins Employs Climate Change as a Cudgel

catastrophism, Christians, Climate, climate change, climate scientists, cold-related deaths, David Legates, denial, Department of Energy, earth, Europe, Francis Collins, guilt by association, heat-related deaths, Holocaust deniers, human flourishing, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, John Christy, Judith Curry, Life Sciences, NASA, oil industry, Patrick Michaels, Physics, Earth & Space, Richard Lindzen, Ronan Connolly, Roy Spencer, Technology, temperature, The Road to Wisdom, William Happer, Willie Soon
Collins identifies as a Christian, but he seems to have missed a glaring instance of design in the Earth system. Source
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17Oct 2024 by Post

Information Spreads in the Atmospheric Highway

aeromicrobiome, antibacterial resistance, bacteria, biology, cloud aerosols, clouds, Daisuke Tanaka, desiccation, Enceladus, Evolution News, France, Fumito Maruyama, fungi, Hunga-Tonga volcano, information, information storage, Intelligent Design, Michael Behe, Physics, Earth & Space, Pierre Amato, PLOS ONE, SEA, spores, Titan, Xavier Rodó
Genetic information gets around. In the troposphere — much higher above land than expected — bacteria and fungi hitch a ride to faraway places. Source
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11Oct 2024 by Post

Europa Clipper Delayed by Hurricane Milton, Frustrating Atheists

alien biology, astrobiology, biology, Discovery Institute, Enceladus, Europa, Europa Clipper, Evolution, Florida, Guillermo Gonzalez, Hurricane Milton, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, life, materialists, moons, NASA, ocean, Physics, Earth & Space, reality, scientific materialism, The Privileged Planet
However desperate the hope for alien biology, how much of your money will they NOT spend to try to find it? Source
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15Sep 2024 by Post

Is NASA in a Slump?

Andrew Jones, Anthi Koskina, Axiom Space, Blue Origin, CNN, Elon Musk, Facebook, Intelligent Design, International Space Station, Jackie Wattles, Joel Achenbach, Manolis Plionis, Moon, NASA, Physics, Earth & Space, planet, Rocket Lab, Sarah “Cooper” Gillis, science fiction, Sierra Space, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Washington Post
NASA is outsourcing a good deal now to private industry. The trouble is, it’s hard to attract creative engineers to a job supervising the work of others. Source
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13Sep 2024 by Post

Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

Anthropic Principle, black holes, computing systems, cosmic reproduction, cosmogony, Cosmological Natural Selection, cosmology, elements, Evolution, evolutionary theory, fusion reactors, Intelligent Design, intelligent life, Jay Richards, Jeffery Shainline, Lee Smolin, life, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, niobium, particle accelerators, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, scientific discovery, silicon, stars, superconductivity, Technology, The Privileged Planet, universes
I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Source
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