Scientists are supposed to be upright and honest and largely immune from bias – as least deliberate bias. However, the problem is that scientists are human like the rest of us. That means, of course, that they are not at all immune from the sometimes very strong temptation to bias their experimental results. Sometimes the…
IT’S THE CULTURE, STUPID By: Dr. Wesley Kime – a popular variation on “it’s the economy, stupid,” game-changing motto dreamed up by James Carville, cultural icon and Democratic strategist for the iconic Clinton campaign of 1992. If it sounds peremptory and patronizing, it’s supposed to: it’s the culture. If the following sounds like satire, it is.…
Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone? By Eric Metaxas Dec. 25, 2014 4:56 p.m. ET . In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses,…
How much of the overall human genome is actually functional? Well, this has been a matter of hot debate since 2012 when the ENCODE scientists announced their estimate of ~80% functionality for the human genome (ENCODE: The human encyclopaedia, Sept 5, 2012). This initial estimate was strongly challenged and even mocked by numerous scientists (Link). …
From an interesting E-mail exchange I recently had about the “science” of detecting God’s signature in nature: Why to you have to jump from “we don’t understand the natural explanation for this” to “it must have been designed by something unnatural?” As scientists we pursue NATURAL explanations for NATURAL things. Are you redefining or resorting…