Bad Day for Evolutionists 2

Once again, “evolutionary medicine” reveals itself as fraudulent, since simian-to-human evolutionary theory fails to explain actual epidemiology. Real science is dependent on inconvenient realities:
Researchers had assumed that because most monkey species infected with SIV don’t get sick, the virus has been coevolving with the primates for millions of years, allowing the host and pathogen to [...]

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Gaia Calls To You

Scientists! Gaia is calling you to a life of superstitious worship and piety:

The YEC dude sure looks like a loser. Of course, if he is afraid of the the Earth, Cosmos, Nature, and Life goddesses, he is a loser.

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The New Torture Methods

How the new torture methods are taught at universities:
I learned that you can make a mouse “depressed” by dunking it repeatedly in cold water, by giving it electrical shocks over and over again, by subjecting it to “chronic forced swimming,” or making it experience “social defeat,” by putting a mean mouse in [...]

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Save the Planet Worshippers

It’s not about Science. It’s all about morality and making the world safe for paganism again.

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A Bad Day for Evolutionists

Andrew misleads the flock, suggesting that this is an historic moment for evolutionism:
Even though Ventastega is likely an evolutionary dead-end, the finding sheds new details on the evolutionary transition from fish to tetrapods…. Scientists don’t think four-legged creatures are directly evolved from Ventastega…. One question that scientists are trying to figure out is why fish [...]

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Reactionary Romantics

When was this ever not true?
I would like to point out that America has become a nation of fence sitters. Instead of holding strong to a personal conviction, we see which way the wind blows and then go with the flow.
[WAYNE STEWART]
One of the most startling problems with phony conservatism is the pretense [...]

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Science Without Experiments

Science Without Experiments by Jim Manzi
This article boils down the problem I have with the holier-than-thou rationalizers who constantly use Science as a club to beat down everyone they hate. If you can’t prove your claim with an indisputable real-life demonstration in front of me, then your claim is not “empirical.” It is an expression [...]

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Problem Child

The beat goes on in this daisy chain of online commentary:
Holiday in Hellmouth [James Wood]
A History of Theodicy [Ross Douthat]
Terrified By Freedom [Daniel Larison]
Wood and Larison seem to agree that the “problem of evil” is essentially the outcry of a disillusioned adolescent, a “rebel believer” who would rather call himself an atheist than admit that [...]

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