1+ hour, 40+ min ago  (192+ words) Our colleague Rick Sternberg used to say to me, half-jokingly (or, frankly, not really joking at all), "Paul " in animals, every gene'ultimately'affects everything,'one way or another.'Pleiotropy as far as the eye can see." A new multi-author article, from…...

6+ hour, 46+ min ago  (563+ words) Over the past few days I've been discussing an important paper in the journal Science that reveals supposed Ediacaran bilaterian animal fossils (see here and here, with more to come). Meanwhile, this past weekend, I happened to go on a…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (183+ words) Indeed. Information and orderly processes don't happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts. Nonetheless, Darwin-faithful biologists observe the same information and protein-synthesis systems but stop short of making the same…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (633+ words) Human embryonic development requires regulated activation of the zygote's genome through chemical and mechanical inputs, establishing the signaling patterns that guide cells into forming all of the fully functional organ systems. It is these same types of mechanisms that are…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago  (867+ words) Science and Culture Today In their 2010 book, The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow set out to answer a big question: "Is the apparent "grand design' of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (386+ words) Until the mid 20th century, the prevailing scientific narrative said that the universe was eternal and that the features we observe came about through slow, gradual, materialistic changes. As Carl Sagan intoned in the opening segment of his popular 1980s PBS series…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (693+ words) As Bethel Mc Grew notes, the tradition of seeing the stars, planets, and the rest of space as pointing to a creator has a distinguished scientific history. Source The upcoming theatrical film The Story of Everything(out on April 30) is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (533+ words) Science and Culture Today The Declaration of Independence is our nation's founding creed, reminding us time and again that "we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights." But for too long now, science has been misused to overturn…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1181+ words) Science and Culture Today Since the late 19th century, a philosophical assumption has embedded itself so deeply into scientific culture that it has become nearly invisible. That assumption is materialism " the view that the physical universe is all there is, that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (460+ words) Author's note: This is Part Five of a series of conversations with J. Budziszewski, a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and author most recently of Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy....