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Making predictions can leave you looking like a total dummy. Trust me, I learned this lesson the hard way after predicting in print on the Friday before the 2012 presidential election that Mitt Romney would defeat then-President Barack Obama by three percentage points on the following Tuesday. That said, lots of people continue to make…
Read MoreConsider the simple mouse trap: It’s made up of five discrete parts, which together have one and only one function – to catch and kill unwary mice. A mere five parts to perform one job. Take away any one of the five parts and what’s left is a pile of useless wood and metal. Similarly,…
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Unless you have been living your entire life in some alternate universe where the first appearance of the sense of humor remains somewhere way, way off in the future, you know what is meant when somebody mentions “Knock-Knock” jokes. Whatever else we may think about any particular Knock-Knock joke, when we hear one, we know…
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Did you hear the one about the three monkeys who sat down at Harvard with MacBook Air laptops, began banging away on the keys in no particular sequence, and lo and behold!, the end result after a long time was an updated version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”? No, probably not, since no three monkeys anywhere, any…
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Science has “proven” that life can evolve from non-life, right? That’s what we’ve all been told over and over and over for decades. But the reality is that there are lots of scientifically significant problems with that contention. The Discovery Institute’s Long Story Short video series describes these multiple problems in animation and narration that…
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If you took a biology course anywhere in the past multiple decades, odds are good you heard some form of the argument that Darwinian Evolution can be seen happening right in front of our very eyes. It’s called Antibiotic Resistance — the process whereby bacteria develop over time the ability to be unfazed by those…
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Linking polymers — the required building blocks for all living things — is an essential step in the creation of life. Without such linking, there is no building of the DNA and RNA strands that are crucial for the process. How important are polymers? Here’s how the smart guys at the Discovery Institute, who produced…
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Too much of a good thing can become a bad thing, right? An important illustration of this maxim is the fact that many antibiotics are wonder drugs when used in the proper dosages, but overuse leads to uselessness. The folks at Discovery Science observe that: “Bacterial evolution and antibiotic resistance is one of the all…
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Charles Darwin caught a lot of flak for his statement in an early edition of “The Origin of the Species” concerning the likelihood of whales in the ocean representing an evolutionary process that began with bears on the land becoming more aquatic. “I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by…
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If one wanted to redefine an inconvenient term in such a manner as to make it a conversational resource rather than an obstacle, giving it a seemingly positive new name is the ticket. Believe it or not, that’s very much like what happened to the word “Homology.” Example: Instead of calling “circular reasoning” circular reasoning,…
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