Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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As new information emerges from USA Today and other sources, we can consider the evidence on both sides and how actual scientific debate can lead us to the truth. Contrary to even current progressive opinion, there was never any real evidence that coronavirus came from a bat. Instead, conjecture and opinion masqueraded as facts, perhaps… Continue reading What’s behind the coronavirus lab-leak theory and how can we prove it once and for all?
What is consciousness? Can consciousness have evolved, naturally, like the rest of our bodies? Why are we conscious? Would we be better off as unconscious zombies? One thing I know for sure: If we’d be better off as zombies, we’d be zombies. It’s much, much cheaper to make us that way, and in the game… Continue reading The evolution of consciousness, reimagined
We’re just starting to understand how evolution takes advantage of much more than mutations in our DNA. Everything evolves, from the biochemical pathways to the cellular structures that support them. Further, some of these structures are incredibly ancient, shared by all life, and still working today. The human body is constructed from four basic building… Continue reading Scientists reconstruct a 3.3 billion year old protein and discover an all new biochemical pathway critical to life and hiding in plain sight
A new study claims ice will melt much faster in 80 years because we’ll reach a tipping point in 40 years if we don’t embrace the Green New Deal now, but what is the track record on other predictions for melting ice and global calamities in general? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not good,… Continue reading The Antarctic ice sheet reaches a tipping point…40 years from now.
A government report is due next month. What are we to make of this? If the details so far are true, not only are we not alone, but we know absolutely nothing about how the universe really works. Call me a skeptic, but ships traveling 11,000 miles per hour and pulling 700 G-forces mean the… Continue reading UFOs: The former Director of National Intelligence, Navy pilots, and a whistleblower claim they’re real and they’re spectacular!
Environmentalists take aim at the mining projects required to obtain the lithium and other minerals required to build electric car batteries. If electric cars are to work, we need lithium, lots of it, 42 times more than we produce today, but buckwheat found in Nevada stands in the way of a critical new mine. The… Continue reading Wait, electric cars are bad now too? Apparently, The New York Times and CNN just discovered electric vehicles don’t run on pixie dust
Meet Bicellum brasieri, a tiny, spherical animal measuring barely a thousandth of an inch discovered in the highlands of Scotland. Bicellum lived a billion years ago, yet remains a critical precursor for all animal life still to come, including ourselves. Fast forward a billion years, and scientists have also discovered the rules that govern the… Continue reading Scientists find the oldest fossil of a multicellular animal and solve a 350 year old puzzle in the growth of both animals and plants alike
It’s been a huge couple of weeks in evolutionary biology: Three teams of scientists, studying three separate periods spanning 450 million years make surprising discoveries about our bodies, our culture, and our ancestors. The human eye is an amazing organ, the origins of which are ancient and shrouded in mystery. Complex eyes, from people to… Continue reading You have the eye of a fish and the DNA of a Neanderthal, but what are you doing with that big brain?
Meet JCVI-syn3A, the world’s first self-reproducing synthetic organism. This tiny little microbe was designed by trial and error in a lab and is capable of both maintaining its own internal structure and creating copies of itself, just like a real cell. The implications for medicine and our understanding of ourselves are, needless to say, enormous.… Continue reading Designing self-replicating cells one gene at a time and solving the mystery of the origins of life
Concerns about the vaccines and the overall handling of the pandemic are well-founded, but don’t let that take away from a once-in-a-generation medical breakthrough that will power new, innovative treatments for decades. Concerns about the vaccines and the never-ending coronavirus crisis shouldn’t detract from the accomplishment of creating them: The new mRNA technology powering the… Continue reading The mRNA miracle: It’s not just vaccines
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 