Month: June 2024
Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces
Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion.
Neanderthals Cared for Down Syndrome Children
It may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born.
The Engineered Adaptability of the Humble Guppy
When a scientist switches from an evolutionary lens to an engineering one, it may be the mother of all eureka moments.
“Irreducible Complexity” May Be Part of the Definition of Life
There are many bad counter-arguments to Michael Behe’s famous irreducible complexity conundrum, and (in my opinion) one pretty good one.
Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang
The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.”