I’ve been doing some research on the origin of body plans. Mainly to address those chapters in Darwin’s Doubt that deal…
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I’ve decided that, in order to better represent the position of science and skepticism, to create a series of standard…
The Possibility of Intelligent Design This was my real goal in reviewing Darwin’s Doubt. There is no question that science…
I love Sam Harris, but I cringe every time he says something about Buddhism, meditation, or that feudal dictator…
A reader has specifically asked that I look into the Great Darwinian Paradox as promoted by the authors associated with…
Tim Minchin‘s foreword to The Best Australian Science Writing 2013: The previous two collections in this excellent series have contained…
I’m currently reading Brian Greene‘s 2011 book, The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. As…
Genetic Modification, the direct manipulation of an organisms genes by processes other than selective breeding, exists. As much as people…
I’m sure there will be many tributes to Carl Sagan today, so I offer mine. It’s no different than thousands…
That you probably won’t hear about on the evening news. The Chelyabinsk meteor wasn’t as uncommon as we may think.…