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evolutionnews.org —  1+ day ago

...The fossil was acquired by me some years ago for the amber collection of the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart (Germany), where I worked as scientific... ...curator for amber and fossil insects until 2016.... ...Giberson and Francis Collins (2011) in their book The Language of Science and Faith (for a critique see Luskin 2021).... ...Today, I want to use the occasion to discuss a recent study on the origin of feathers by Cooper & Milinkovitch (2023), which was celebrated as evidence...

evolutionnews.org —  2+ day ago

...Now, just under a week after YouTube personality Professor Dave's poor showing (see here and here) in the origin-of-life debate at Rice University... ...with James Tour, it sure looks as if he is inciting his fans to violence.... ...But it takes only one unhinged “Professor Dave” fan to take Dave Farina at his word.... ...Luskin and the 7th was by Professor Tour. ...

evolutionnews.org —  2+ day ago

...Now, just under a week after YouTube personality Professor Dave's poor showing (see here and here) in the origin-of-life debate at Rice University... ...with James Tour, it sure looks as if he is inciting his fans to violence.... ...But it takes only one unhinged “Professor Dave” fan to take Dave Farina at his word.... ...Luskin and the 7th was by Professor Tour. ...

evolutionnews.org —  2+ day ago

...We're currently doing an analysis of the online debate between Rice University professor James Tour and YouTube educator “Professor Dave” Farina... ...Thankfully, the Tour-Farina debate provides an ideal illustration of how a non-expert can determine who had the upper hand simply based upon observing... ...In each case, Farina declined to do it. He would not answer Tour"s questions.... ...Tour focused on the science and simply asked Farina to come to the blackboard and show the chemistry which can produce, under realistic prebiotic...

evolutionnews.org —  2+ day ago

...In several articles we have already deconstructed the debate between Professor James Tour and “Professor” Dave Farina on the state of research about... ...Today, I will address one of the few honest questions Farina and other critics have asked: If Tour"s critique of the field is accurate, why has he... ...One of the most comprehensive and insightful critiques of origins research is by Steven Benner (2009), a synthetic chemist praised by Farina.... ...Lipids that provide tidy compartments under the close supervision of a graduate student (supporting a protocell-first model for origins) are quite...

evolutionnews.org —  3+ day ago

...As I noted in a previous post, over the course of the origin of life (OOL) debate between James Tour and Dave Farina, things got technical and things... ...It's simple: James Tour focused on science, Dave Farina focused on character assassination. ... ...For example, he quoted James Shapiro at the University of Chicago saying that “certain questions like the origins of the first living cells currently...

evolutionnews.org —  2+ day ago

...Today we feature a video hosted by historian of science Michael Keas that exposes three big myths about the history of Christianity and science:... ...Would you help us make more videos by donating to our “Be a Movie Producer” campaign? ...

evolutionnews.org —  3+ day ago

...Professor Dave, aka Dave Farina, thinks it's a conspiracy of Discovery Institute “plants” writing these reviews.... ...We've posted a number of YouTube reviews of the event held at Rice University -- not from ID folks but from self-identified atheists and agnostics... ...This scientist -- Professor Javier Campos-Gomez at the University of Alabama at Birmingham -- was easy to find and I emailed him for permission to... ...But Professor Campos-Gomez is a scientist with relevant expertise, qualified to spot a fairy tale when he sees one....

evolutionnews.org —  3+ day ago

...As I noted in a previous post, over the course of the origin of life (OOL) debate between James Tour and Dave Farina, things got technical and things... ...It's simple: James Tour focused on science, Dave Farina focused on character assassination. ... ...For example, he quoted James Shapiro at the University of Chicago saying that “certain questions like the origins of the first living cells currently...