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Tiny Life Benefits the Whole World

April 19, 2018

Some very small organisms can produce global effects, such as the tiny crustaceans that stir the oceans every night. What would the oceans be like without life? If minerals, gases and nutrients had to mix by diffusion, the process would be very slow. Wind and currents could help somewhat. Now, Houghton et al., publishing in […]

Fossils

Fossil Forest Found in Antarctica

November 20, 2017

Claimed to be 280 million years old, stumps of fossil trees retain original material in the world's coldest climate.

Geology

Hurricanes Are Not Increasing from Global Warming

September 8, 2017

Scientists explain that this hurricane season is not exceptional in the long term view, despite four devastating storms in just a week.

Philosophy of Science

Chinks in the Climate Science Data

August 17, 2017

Consensus can be more robust than the data it rests on. That's true in Darwinism, and appears to be true in climate science, according to some published doubts.

Darwin and Evolution

Darwin Fail: Surprising Organisms Follow Their Own Path

July 25, 2017

There are organisms that change too fast, others that change too slow, and others that change without natural selection. What's a Darwinist to do?

Marine Biology

Life Helps Protect the Planet

July 1, 2017

When humans make a mess of things, our fellow organisms try to help. That's no excuse for our failures to be good stewards.

Geology

More Reasons to Doubt Consensus

June 17, 2017

Recent scientific papers cast doubt on the ability of researchers to understand systems as complex as climate.

Solar System

Secularists Can Believe Mars Had a Global Flood

June 6, 2017

Mars has no liquid water today, but water must have covered much of the planet in the past. How? Nobody knows.

Media

Pretending Intelligent Design Is Like Evolution

April 18, 2017

Imprecise language confuses the evolution issue, making it seem like goal-directed activity of intelligent minds mimics Darwinism.

Philosophy of Science

Scientism Fails Another Defense

March 12, 2017

A physicist's latest attempt to justify scientism reveals a deplorable ignorance of history, logic and philosophy of science.

Education

Natural Selection Favors Illogic

March 5, 2017

Nothing in Darwin's mechanism guarantees humans will think rationally. Fitness might actually favor stupidity. For proof, look at the reasoning of people who believe in natural selection.

Darwin and Evolution

How Many More Anomalies Can Darwinism Take?

February 11, 2017

Darwinism survives not because it is empirically verified, but because it is a deduction from a tightly-held materialistic worldview.

Philosophy of Science

Climate Flap Echoes Political Divide

February 8, 2017

Reactions to a whistleblower's statements raise the possibility that the climate-science consensus is largely political, not empirical.

Geology

Doubts About Dates and Climate

February 4, 2017

New findings cast doubt on scientists' ability to be certain about their consensus views.

Education

Darwinism Still Corrupts Culture

January 22, 2017

The bad fruits of Social Darwinism are well known. Less well known are ongoing negative influences of modern Darwinian ideas on human behavior.

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