The good news is that the peer review process is not at the heart of the scientific process. Peer review refers to the review of an article by an author’s peers before it is submitted to a journal. The reviewers do not duplicate the work or corroborate it. They evaluate it on the basis of proper […]
America The Doubtful America is a world leader in doubting the theory of evolution, perhaps second only to Turkey. For the last 12 years, Gallup polls have shown that somewhere between 40% and 46% of the American adult population believe that humans did not evolve from less-advanced forms of life over millions of years. In […]
Learning about the grandeur of the theory of evolution, about its function and the long record of its development, the inter-connectivity of all Earthly life having descended from a common ancestor (we are all family), and of evolution on a macro cosmic scale ~ the evolution of stars and galaxies and the fact that we […]
Ray Comfort is still busy producing his science-denying videos even after his monumental embarrassment on the evolution of bananas. This time he mounts a more comprehensive attack on science that he does not understand. One irony that people are pointing out is that Comfort has chosen a medium of communications for his work that is made […]
What is Information? In the mid 2oth century this was an important question because of the rapidly growing radio, television, and telephone systems all around the world. The problem facing the telephone company was a logistical one of figuring out how the fewest numbers of wires and other resources could be shared for maximum […]
I wrote this in a facebook forum where people discuss the implications of science on their religious faith. Naturally, the topic of Genesis comes up frequently, because a literal reading of Genesis seems to contradict so much of what we know about the universe through science. Christianity does have a long tradition of not […]
Darwin’s Warm Little Pond You might remember from high school science class that life arose from some kind of primordial soup of inorganic chemicals. This was the twentieth century’s version of Darwin’s “warm little pond” that he wrote about to his colleague Robert Hooker. “It is often said that all the conditions for the […]
The famous Urey-Miller experiment from the 1950s has been taught in high school science class as an example of how life might have begun. The idea of life beginning in what Darwin called a “warm little pond” had been around even before Darwin’s time. The Urey-Miller experiment captured the attention of everyone, because […]
The robotic explorer Curiousity just touched down on Mars within the last few weeks. The touchdown ended a 350 million mile journey from the Earth’s surface to the Martian surface with each inch of its journey planned out using Newtonian Mechanics. All the calculations involving rocket thrust, insertion into Earth orbit, navigating from Earth to […]
A prominent Christian website promoting Biblical Creationism has asked its followers to challenge teachers, professors and anyone else with 15 Questions about the Theory of Evolution. Their campaign is called Question Evolution. Although the questions do not actually challenge the Theory of Evolution, they are questions that certainly deserve carefully thought out answers. We hope to provide a […]
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