Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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For some reason, the experts are claiming we can translate animal speech that doesn’t really exist in the same sense as human speech, and they are proposing to do so with only half the necessary data, the sounds alone without the show, so to speak. Late last year, the Coller Dolittle Prize announced that researchers… Continue reading No, AI cannot translate animal sounds into human speech because animals don’t freaking talk
“Methodologies in sexuality research must evolve to ensure more participatory and child-centered methods,” claims the American Sociological Association in one of the most disturbing articles ever, complete with calls for children to draw pictures and film their sexual experiences. “Sexualities scholarship marginalizes childhood sexual pleasure, positioning children as vulnerable subjects. This article repositions childhood sexualities… Continue reading No, we shouldn’t be theorizing about the sexual lives of children for the sake of intersectionality even as the experts keep getting more and more insane
As opposed to the traditional view of evolution by natural selection, niche selection theory holds that we aren’t passive participants in our fate. Therefore, a new study about changes in our diet and our teeth millions of years ago should not have been surprising. Sometimes, even the experts can miss the forest for the trees… Continue reading The second most underrated and misunderstood evolutionary concept
Scientists discover a new cell that lives like a virus and a new rule of life that can best be seen as the opposite of a regular rule, introducing chaos into the operation of a cell at a fundamental level. Scientists like tidy groupings, where you are either in or you’re out. At least since… Continue reading Evolution, two recent discoveries, and how there remain more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy
In a world where computers are creating content, from text to images, video, even writing songs, can they rightly be considered artists, or is there still something that makes humans unique? Today’s Artificial Intelligence software can create new things, generating content that has never been produced before, from the written word to pictures, videos, even… Continue reading Artificial Intelligence, the nature of creativity, and the difference between humans and machines
As a child, did you ever think to yourself that you’ll never stop playing with toys or you’ll never like a member of the opposite sex whatever the adults say? If so, do you remember when and why you changed your mind? The question is oddly impossible to answer. Childhood is a wonderfully weird thing,… Continue reading Why do humans have to grow up rather than emerge from a cocoon like butterflies?
Almost everyone knows that an octopus is much smarter than we would expect for a boneless creature that lives in the ocean, but next to no one expected they would achieve their intelligence using some of the same genes and chemical processes we do. Octopi and their cephalopod cousins have long been regarded as unusually… Continue reading Our brains might have more in common with an octopus than we’d like to believe, suggesting that famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’ new paradigm is correct
For the first time ever, scientists observe a doubling in the size of a genome with an immediate evolutionary advantage, solving a longstanding riddle that goes back to Darwin himself, and proving that complexity can arise spontaneously and persist through the generations. Ever since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species on November 24,… Continue reading The origins of evolutionary complexity
The legendary biologist Richard Dawkins returns to evolutionary theory with his third and fourth big idea, ushering in a true paradigm shift in how we view ourselves, the world, and the DNA that builds bodies to interact between the two. Imagine if you can, extracting the DNA of an ancient eukaryotic cell, the earliest complex… Continue reading Are we nothing more than massive colonies of self-replicating viruses traveling through time?
Since the 1960s, scientists have focused on a gene’s ability to encode proteins, resulting in a causal chain of gene expression from the initial coding in a strand of DNA, to the extraction of the code into RNA, to the formation of the protein and it’s ultimate expression in an organism. This view now appears… Continue reading A better late than never paradigm shift in molecular biology, long predicted by Richard Dawkins, happening right before our eyes
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 