Month: December 2012
Ho Hum. Another Day, Another Startlingly Lifelike Decoy Expertly Sculpted by a…Spider
A breathtaking innovation in nature is deflated and brushed aside simply by applying to it the assertion that after all, it’s “no surprise.”
Scandal! Gauger Filmed in Front of Green Screen
Here’s the most ludicrous criticism of intelligent design that I’ve come across so far this week.
Scientific Fraud and Piltdown, the “Missing Link,” at One Hundred
“Science is human. It is subject to error and, what’s more, malice.”
Nature Paper Removes Enigmatic Ediacaran Fossils from the Ancestry of Cambrian Explosion Animals
It’s been a rough season for Precambrian animal fossils.
Assessing the “Algorithmic Origin of Life”
“Explaining the chemical substrate of life and claiming it as a solution to life’s origin is like pointing to silicon and copper as an explanation for the goings-on inside a computer,” says astrobiologist Paul Davies.