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Oldest Animal Cave Painting Baffles Evolutionary Anthropologists

November 7, 2018

How did cave art of animals appear on opposite sides of the world at the same time? What’s being called the oldest cave painting of an animal has been dated by evolutionary anthropologists at a minimum of 40,000 years old. The baffling thing is that similar cave art in Europe dates to roughly the same […]

Darwin and Evolution

No Such Thing as Natural Election

November 6, 2018

On election day in America, both election and selection imply a chooser. Neither word applies in mindless nature.

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin Given Credit for Non-Darwinian Observations

November 5, 2018

Darwinian evolution is one of the most curious scientific theories ever. Even un-Darwinian data can be twisted to support it.

Politics and Ethics

Big Science Sells Its Soul to Political Correctness

November 3, 2018

Few things are more scientifically obvious than biological sex, but Nature would rather please the politically correct crowd.

SETI

SETI: A Fact-Free Occult Cult with Money

November 2, 2018

The science behind SETI is just window dressing. Believers obsess on space aliens with religious zeal, not evidence.

Human Body

No Natural Limit to Human Lifespan

November 1, 2018

Short lifespans may involve more about what we do to our bodies than what our bodies do to us.

Politics and Ethics

NASA-JPL Loves Halloween but Despises Christmas

October 31, 2018

NASA's premiere planetary lab goes nuts at Halloween, but fears the word Christmas. You can only have a Holiday Party in December.

Philosophy of Science

Science’s Got Troubles, cont.

October 29, 2018

The "credibility crisis" in science is not solved. It may be getting worse.

Genetics

Determine to Oppose Determinism

October 28, 2018

Even secularists have trouble with books that promote the idea that we are what our genes make us.

Politics and Ethics

Science’s Got Troubles

October 27, 2018

Numerous news articles point to moral shortcomings in Big Science that threaten public trust. The US Constitution was a great idea. But John Adams once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (US Archives). Similarly, the “Scientific Method,” as it […]