Tag: science
For Neil Tyson and Cosmos, Serious Scientific Controversies Are All a Thing of the Past
Whatever you believe about the origin of humans or the future of climate change, dissent deserves to be heard.
In a Ninth Episode, Marred by the Now Familiar Rigid Ideology, Cosmos Tackles Geology and Climate
The contested hypothetical details of the Permian-Triassic Extinction get flattened into a narrative as certain and uncontroversial as a timeline of World War II.
No, Avida Has Not Falsified Irreducible Complexity
Many critics have insisted that evolution can produce irreducibly complex structures, pointing notably to the example of Avida, a computer model demonstrated in a 2003 Nature paper.
Cosmos Says We’re Made of “Stardust”; But Is That All?
Last night’s episode was highlighted by a fascinating discussion of how scientists have determined the compositions of stars, and what happens when different types of stars die.
Lynn Margulis: Evolutionist and Critic of Neo-Darwinism
“Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism…I believed it until I looked for evidence.”