09Aug 2023 by Post

The Problem of Pain: Julian Huxley, Magnus Carlsen, and the Meaning of Life

Atheism, atheists, Charles Darwin, chess, chessboard, Evolution, Faith & Science, fossils, Intelligent Design, Julian Huxley, Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen, Meaning, meaning of life, meaninglessness, Norway, origin of life, Origin of Species, pain, paleontologists, religion, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago
In a conversation with Lex Fridman, Magnus Carlsen betrays no sense of empathy for how his view that life is an accident might negatively impact others. Source
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08Feb 2023 by Post

Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

Alison Abbott, Biomimetics, California two-spot octopus, cephalopods, convergence, cuttlefish, Darwin's Doubt, David Klinghoffer, Dennis Normile, distributed networks, Evolution, genes, giant squid, hydrothermal vents, Intelligent Design, Living Waters, mimic octopus, molecular clock, Mollusca, narrative gloss, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neo-Darwinian processes, Octopus bimaculoides, Paul Nelson, propulsion, reflectins, Richard Sternberg, soft robots, Stephen Meyer, triumphalism, University of Chicago
“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from? Source
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13Aug 2022 by Post

What Is It Like to Be a Bee?

Alun Anderson, Antonio Damasio, BBC, bees, Catherine Wilson, consciousness, dancers, Dogs, dopamine, insect rights, intelligence, James Shapiro, Lars Chittka, materialism, Neuroscience & Mind, New Scientist, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, science, sensation, The Mind of a Bee, The Scientist, University of Chicago, USC, waggle dance
What, exactly, does “consciousness” or “feel and think” mean when applied to a bee? This usage is no remote outpost. Source
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29Jun 2022 by Post

Evolution With and Without Multiple Simultaneous Changes

Arthur Hunt, bacteria, BIO-Complexity, biological adaptations, chloroquine resistance, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinian processes, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, enzymes, Evolution, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), hypercube, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, Jason Rosenhouse, Kenneth Miller, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, Nature (journal), Origin of Species, Plasmodium, Plasmodium falciparum, probabilities, The Edge of Evolution, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, The Third Way, University of Chicago
Darwinism is committed to evolution happening gradually, one step at a time, by single mutational changes. Source
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18Jun 2022 by Post

The Challenge from Jason Rosenhouse

biologists, debate, email, engineers, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Intelligent Design, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, Leo Kadanoff, mathematicians, peer-reviewed literature, physics, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, University of Chicago, YouTube videos
"The response would be a lot chillier if they tried the same arguments in front of audiences with the relevant expertise." Is that so? Source
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06Jan 2022 by Post

A New Flaw in the Miller-Urey Experiment, and a Few Old Ones

atmosphere, biology, biology textbooks, early Earth, Eric Anderson, Evolution, experiments, glassware, Harold Urey, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Podcast, Stanley Miller, textbooks, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, University of Chicago
It is an interesting finding, but as Wells explains, it is far from the first problem discovered with the experiment, nor the most serious one. Source
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05Nov 2021 by Post

University of Chicago Biochemist: All Living Cells Are Cognitive

archaea, bacteria, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, biology, cell's, cognition, Daniel Dennett, intelligence, Intelligent Design, James Shapiro, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Oxford English Dictionary, protoplasm, quorum sensing, University of Chicago
James Shapiro’s recent paper points out, with examples, that bacteria meet the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of “cognitive.” Source
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12Aug 2021 by Post

Chances That Life Originated Without Intelligent Design? “Zero,” Says Physicist Eric Hedin

atheists, Ball State University, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, cancel culture, Canceled Science, eric hedin, Intelligent Design, Jennifer Kabbany, Jerry Coyne, Nobel Prize, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, The College Fix, universe, University of Chicago
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
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18Jun 2021 by Post

The Most Memorable Lecture I Ever Heard at the University of Chicago — Finally Published

biology, Bob Richards, creationists, Evolution, Frank Lewis Marsh, Genetics and the Origin of Species, history of science, Macroevolution, Mark B. Adams, Microevolution, neo-Darwinian theory, Richard Delisle, Russia, Theodosius Dobzhansky, United States, University of Chicago, University of Lethbridge, University of Nebraska, University of Pennsylvania, William C. Wimsatt, Yuri Filipchenko
The announced title was something like “Big Evolution and Little Evolution: The History of the Difference.” Source
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08Apr 2021 by Post

Charles Marshall: Origin of Life Could Have Happened “Millions of Times”

alkaline vent, Australia, Charles Marshall, chemical determinism, codons, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Doubt, David Raup, Evolution, evolutionary theory, genetic code, Intelligent Design, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, Michael Yarus, Pajaro Dunes meeting, paleontologists, Phillip Johnson, protein translation, ribosomes, RNA world, Science (journal), Science at Cal, U.C. Berkeley, University of Chicago
Charles Marshall at U.C. Berkeley represents establishment opinion in current evolutionary theory, and for good reason. Source
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