Month: March 2015
Good Grief, Now They’re Pushing for "Machine Rights"
We still have too much work to do in the realm of human rights to worry about machines.
A Big Problem for Common Descent: Hundreds of "Active ‘Foreign’ Genes" Don’t Fit the Standard Evolutionary Phylogeny
The transfer of genes between organisms living in the same environment is known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT).
Wheels Within Wheels: Michael Denton on the "Coincidences" that Make Us Possible
We have all heard too often that human beings are a mere speck in a cosmos that never cared about us.
How Man Solves the Problem of Being a Multi-Cellular Organism
A single-celled organism is like a microscopic island of life, in that it can get what it needs to live from the surrounding water.
From Steven Wise, TED Conference Hears that Chimps and Bonobos Are "Slaves"
I wonder: Has TED ever had anyone defend the unique value of human life?