Tag: nature
Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease
Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, a leader in this movement for “Darwinian medicine,” would require “questions about evolution in medical licensing examinations.”
The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero
Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature.
Counterprogramming for Cosmos 3.0: Two New Videos from Science Historian Mike Keas
The series, as hosted originally by Carl Sagan and now by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has two notable priorities.
Aquatic Bladderworts — Michael Behe’s “Irreducibly Complex” Mousetrap in Nature
Behe offered the mousetrap as an example of a simple everyday device that is “irreducibly complex.”
In Episode 3 of Secrets of the Cell, Michael Behe Tests “The Power of Evolution”
The planthopper bug has gears in its legs that permit it to jump what in human terms would be like vaulting the length of two football fields at one go.