Month: July 2016
On Junk DNA Claim, Francis Collins Walks It Back, Admitting “Hubris”
By “hubris” perhaps he means the overweening tendency to assume that scientific opinion as constituted at the moment has got it all figured out.
Yes, There Can Be Science Without Scientism, and Without Relativism
Can we reject the confines of pure materialism without rejecting the information-value of data?
Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language
Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven’t detected.
More Scientists Praise Douglas Axe’s Undeniable
One of the refreshing things about Dr. Axe’s new book is his confession that you don’t have to take his word for any of it.
Once Again, Astrobiologists Put a Veneer of Sophistication on Ignorance
The Drake equation quantified ignorance about SETI. A new equation does the same for the origin of life.