I do believe that some of the criticism leveled against Expelled is legitimate -- or might be, if we overlooked...
True story: It's my junior year, and I'm attending a reasonably prestigious university with a reputation for being just a...
The scientific establishment uses falsifiability the way postmodernists use deconstructionism: selectively, to tear down the ideas of their enemies...
"Wikipedia's zealots" describes how Lawrence Solomon attempted to correct a global-warming-related Wikipedia entry with additional information, and how his changes...
A recent study discovered that belief in God among academics, by discipline, was ordered about like this: (Most Atheistic) Biology...
What Western scientist first hypothesized the "Big Bang"? Go ahead and look at the Wikipedia article on the subject --...
Actually, nobody knows for sure, the answer seems to be: "Not many more than a roundworm": When analysis of the...
I'm not, at this point, a huge fan of certain parts of "intelligent design" -- the main proposition of which...
Today I stumbled upon an interesting character, Professor Pierre P. Grasse, who was an eminent zoologist who served as the...
Several years ago, Japan formed a huge research center in Kobe to focus on "regenerative medicine technologies like embryonic stem...
I hope this is not premature, but pardon me while I engage in a breach of etiquette: From the beginning,...
Either way, you can't blame the Fed for this one... A Houston Chronicle article alleges tropical storm inflation: With another...
As a Christian, I have the potential to be a better paleobiologist than any similar atheist: my faith allows me...
From PhysOrg.com, via Instapundit: UCF physicist says Hollywood movies hurt students' understanding of science Movies such as Spiderman 2 and...
All across America, beekeepers have noticed that their bees have just gone missing. It's been a huge mystery, and a...
From the I-miss-Mr-Wizard Department: This actually sounds like a lot of fun: Hey kids! Try this at home. Pour clean...
Last year, we all knew that ingesting antioxidants like Vitamin E was helpful for minimizing cancer risks. This year? Large...
I know, I know: the very title itself is nearly blasphemous. Richard Dawkins is, after all, the "Charles Simonyi Professor...
International Daily Newswire: UK Scientists Seek to Create Human-Cow Embryos NEWCASTLE, UK, November 6, 2006 (ENS) - Stem cell scientists...
Background This spring, the blogosphere (and eventually the mainstream media) erupted in outrage over reports that one Dr. Eric Pianka,...
Via Instapundit, finally, somebody's finally exposing the public to something I've been aware of for a while. Yet another entry...
Good article in Reason magazine, addressing the burning (sorry) question: Is the planet running out of gas?...
As to the specific arguments of Intelligent Design, I am somewhat the agnostic. But, as I mention here, I find...
Seems like we're seeing quite a bit of fraud concerning embryonic (though apparently not adult) stem cell research. Past During...
We're told that the Scopes "Monkey Trial" represented a victory for modern, enlightened progressive thought against the backwards, hateful beliefs...
I recently happened upon this critique of intelligent design. I find it illogical for several reasons, stated below. You're welcomed...
A few thoughts this morning on "intelligent design" -- not something I normally venture into discussing in this space. Intelligent...
The BBC reports a new studies proves that homosexuality is a genetic trait residing in a combination of genes! Or does it?
Science Daily: Giant deer first appeared about 400,000 years and roamed much of the Eurasian continent alongside the woolly mammoth....
Science Daily: A small unmanned observatory high on the Antarctic plateau provides the best star-viewing site on Earth, according to...
My freshman year at Washington University in St. Louis, "The Panda's Thumb" was part of the required reading list for...
Science News: Researchers have debunked the much-publicized idea, known as the Mozart effect, that listening to classical music improves children's...
Science News: Amid all the panting, a dog at play makes a distinctive, breathy exhalation that can trigger playfulness in...
We love to worry, don't we? And we seem to have a knack for worrying about the most useless things while ignoring the real threats...
Twinkle, twinkle little star,DeBeers craves you from afar... BBC News: The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000...
Are diamonds made from coal? Wouldn't that be further evidence that oil isn't made from diosaurs or decaying plant materials?
Astrophysicist Thomas Gold on the deep, hot biosphere: The astronomers have been able to find that hydrocarbons, as oil, gas...
Who knew? New Scientist reports Pretty Women Scramble Mens' Ability to Assess the Future, in which researchers show that after...
Lately, there's been grousing around the blogosphere about the low view afforded to males in the media lately. The New...
Ben Witherington argues persuasively at ChristianityToday that there's a lot more to the IAA's actions than meets the eye....
Yet another medical miracle involving adult, not embryonic, stem cells.
Among others, entertainment moguls like Gene Roddenbury and Stephen Spielberg like to present psychic phenomena as being "scientific", while deriding other (theistic) religious beliefs as "primitive". But what does science have to say about mind-reading? How does it work?
I visited Tasmania several years ago, and heard about the 'extinction' of the Tasmanian 'tiger' -- one of the few...
Our society continues to evolve, according to the immutable laws of science, towards a utopian ideal, right? Roddenbury thought so anyway. So did Marx.
Apparently Gene Roddenbury loved Science Fiction. It's a shame he didn't love science, and appeared to lack even the most elementary grasp of physics or astronomy.
The BBC carries a report blaming the spread of West Nile in the U.K. on climate change. Really? A similar...
The odd mass which washed up on a Chilean beach -- for those who have followed the mystery -- has...
Stephen DenBeste points out that increased environmental friendliness might have been the critical factor which killed the crew of the...
Harry points to this article which indicate the Middle Ages may have been warmer than tody. "According to the researchers,...
Did you know that some types of natural gas, produced as a byproduct of Alaskan oil, can be converted into...
Now that I've disgorged a lengthy explanation of my position on stem cell research, I can say, in my most...
During a lecture, Nobel prize-winning* physicist Richard Feynman once said, regarding science, ethics, killing, and war......
More information about the newly-discovered fossils in this BBC article. Elsewhere on the BBC site, another scientist instead suggests that...
I'm watching 50's alien invasion film This Island Earth. Three nuclear physicists walk into a laboratory and hear a cat...
BBC News reports on a tablet found beneath the temple mount mosque. The BBC shows its bias and/or complete cluelessness...
Fellow St. Louis blogger FunMurphys.com points out an article in Science News which indicates that dogs are better at understanding...
Big news boys and girls! For the first time ever, the Speed of Gravity has been measured! And Einstein was...