I could say more on the subject, but much of it is in this fantastic conversation — “the toughest debate I’ve ever had,” as Halper graciously says at the end.
The Rotten Tomatoes site is giving it a 95 percent approval rating on the Popcornmeter. Do be sure to see it on the big screen while you have the opportunity.
No one voice dominates the narration, with specialists who’d been interviewed stepping in to recount the parts of the story with which they’re familiar.
The oldest girl said about the irreducibly complex motor of the bacterial flagellum, “We just learned about bacteria in school, but we didn’t learn that!”
Dr. Meyer is talking about Albert Einstein’s greatest error with a huge “podcast that is dedicated to providing truthful fitness and health information.”
If languages evolve in the familiar Darwinian manner, you would expect there to be a range of sophistication levels across the spectrum of human languages.
A video claims to show how the unguided origin of life is easy to envision, involving random chemical “blobs” forming into a replicator, given enough time.
Let’s consider the fossils the paper identifies as appearing in the Ediacaran but that belong to phyla previously known to appear first in the Cambrian.
Scientific arguments can take a long time to percolate through the culture, especially when the scientific establishment and media push another narrative.
Information and orderly processes don’t happen by accident any more than a factory production line organizes itself out of unassembled constituent parts.
