This document contains summaries and excerpts from various scientists discussing topics related to evolution, origins of life, extraterrestrial life, intelligent design, and criticisms of naturalistic explanations. It references works from Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, George Wald, Michael Behe, and others on these interconnected subjects.
Presentation on 13 January 2015: AHRC Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy workshop (http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/rethinkingexistentialism/?page_id=134) Watch the presentation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qh0KzYOklyY
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A guide through the history of the film Gattaca and the broader context with which it fits within. Excellent for text response essays.
Presentation on 13 January 2015: AHRC Rethinking Existentialism in Psychotherapy workshop (http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/rethinkingexistentialism/?page_id=134) Watch the presentation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qh0KzYOklyY
Gattaca - Historical - Social - Cultrual Background - Key dates and events pr...Steven Kolber
Gattaca - Historical - Social - Cultrual Background - Key dates and events pre 1997.
A guide through the history of the film Gattaca and the broader context with which it fits within. Excellent for text response essays.
In 1908, Charles Dawson's "discovered" human skeleton fossils that were touted to be the missing link in human evolution. This set off a flurry of excitement and national pride among both paleoanthropologists and the public. Forty years later the find was deemed fake. Who was the fraudster? Could it happen again?
Science Round up: James Watson BiographyAsharabIrfan
This is a Biography of James Watson's life.
This presentation contains the facts about James Watson's life, from where did he get his education, his awards, his family, the books he wrote and etc.
Brief review of a new e-book: "Another World, A Different Life"
A science fiction story dealing with relationships, materialism, genetic manipulation, and alien abduction.
ESF Presentation to Nuclear Proliferation International History Project: Roma Are University and supported by the Historical Archives of the European Union.
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In 1908, Charles Dawson's "discovered" human skeleton fossils that were touted to be the missing link in human evolution. This set off a flurry of excitement and national pride among both paleoanthropologists and the public. Forty years later the find was deemed fake. Who was the fraudster? Could it happen again?
Science Round up: James Watson BiographyAsharabIrfan
This is a Biography of James Watson's life.
This presentation contains the facts about James Watson's life, from where did he get his education, his awards, his family, the books he wrote and etc.
Brief review of a new e-book: "Another World, A Different Life"
A science fiction story dealing with relationships, materialism, genetic manipulation, and alien abduction.
ESF Presentation to Nuclear Proliferation International History Project: Roma Are University and supported by the Historical Archives of the European Union.
Human Genetics Historical Libary: collecting for the future darklecat
Paper presented at the International Workshop on the History of Human Genetics (26th May 2017), a satellite workshop to the ESHG European Human Genetics Conference, 50th Anniversary Meeting (1967-2017), Copenhagen.
Discusses collaboration between clinician/academic and library staff to create and curate human genetics historical library.
Darwin said, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
Darwin, C. (1872) Origin of Species, 6th ed. (1988), New York University Press, New York, p. 154.
180 years later, his theory has broken down according to his own criteria! There is ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE TRANSITIONAL FOSSIL BETWEEN KINDS OF ANIMALS. DARWIN'S THEORY IS WRONG!
And his ideas have promoted racism and white supremacy more than any other single person worldwide for the past 150 years! Darwin needs to be Dethroned in our scientific and educational systems.
One line of escape from the maze of blind alleys is of particular relevance to our theme: a phenomenon which goes under the name of 'paedomorphosis'. It was described by Garstang in the 1920s, and taken up by several biologists; but although the existence of the phenomenon is generally accepted, it made little impact on the orthodox theory and is rarely mentioned in the textbooks. It indicates that at certain critical stages evolution can retrace its steps, as it were, along the path which led to the dead end and make a fresh start in a new, more promising direction. The crucial event in this process is the appearance at the foetal, larval or juvenile stage of some useful evolutionary novelty which is carried over into the adult stage of the organism's progeny.
Now this lowering of the age of sexual maturity is a well-known evolutionary phenomenon called neoteny. It has two aspects: the animal starts to breed while still in a larval or juvenile stage; and it never reaches the fully adult stage, which is dropped off - eliminated from its life cycle ('terminal abbreviation').
Sir Gavin de Beer compared the process to the re-winding of a biological clock when evolution is in danger of running down and coming to a standstill: 'A race may become rejuvenated by pushing the adult stage of its individuals off from the end of their ontogenies, and such a race may then radiate out in all directions.'
Paedomorphosis - or juvenilization - thus appears to play an important part in the grand strategy of evolution. It involves a retreat from specialized adult forms to earlier, less committed and more plastic stages in the development of organisms - followed by a sudden advance in a new direction. It is as if the stream of life had momentarily reversed its course, flowing uphill for a while towards its original source; then opened up a new stream-bed - leaving the koala bear stranded on his tree like a discarded hypothesis. In other words, we are faced here with the same pattern of reculer pour mieux sauter, 'step back to leap', which we have encountered at the critical turning points in the evolution of science and art. Biological evolution is to a large extent a history of escapes from the blind alleys of over-specialization, the evolution of ideas a series of escapes from the tyranny of mental habits and stagnant routines. In biological evolution the escape is brought about by a retreat from the adult to a juvenile stage as the starting-point for the new line; in mental evolution by a temporary regression to more primitive and uninhibited modes of ideation, followed by the creative forward leap (the equivalent of a sudden burst of 'adaptive radiation'). Thus these two types of progress - the emergence of evolutionary novelties and the creation of cultural novelties reflect the same undoing-redoing pattern and appear as analogous processes on different levels.
―Janus: A Summing Up by Arthur Koestler
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Find six internet sources or other materials that relate to the read.docxhoundsomeminda
Find six internet sources or other materials that relate to the readings for this Unit and which you find particularly interesting. Provide complete citations for each of the six (as elsewhere required for this course) to include a 3-4 sentence annotation and your estimate of reliability. Alphabetize the list by the author's last names. You may use this assighment to assist you in Journal and Project, but researching topics that related to "Think About It" items and to your Project.
Think About It! Guiding Questions to consider as you read and explore the Internet
How and why are scientific discoveries made at the same time by different scientists who are not working together? Explain.
In the book The Double Helix, James Watson describes his role is this competitive scientific race. In essence, Watson wanted to earn a Nobel Prize, and he decided that the discovery of the structure of DNA was his best chance of doing so. Not all scientists are so very focused on recognition, but everyone wants credit for the work that they do. Discuss the differences, using specific examples, of doing science to become famous and doing science as one does art…because it is simply what you do.
In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize in Science for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Notably absent from the podium was Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray photographs contributed directly to the discovery of the double helix. Franklin did not receive a Nobel Prize for her work on this project because she had died in 1958. Why was she overlooked? Is science still a man’s world? Explain.
How and why is Azande Witchcraft similar to science? What can we learn from this similarity?
If a scientific paradigm is very strong, it is almost impossible to displace. It is how that particular subdiscipline of science is DONE! Paradigm shifts in science are, therefore, rare. Examine at least two known paradigm shifts in science and how they came to be.
Animal communication through ‘silent’ substrate-borne vibration signals is an ancient, wide-spread system that predates hearing even in vertebrates and has been used by insects for at least 230 million years. A conservative estimate is that as many as 150,000 species of insects use only vibrational signals in communication, and another 45,000 species use it in combination with vision, hearing, smell, etc. Vertebrate animals from mammals to fish also use vibrational signals, but we humans know very little about this communication modality. Even those who study animal communication may overlook potential evidence that vibrational signals are important in their study group. Discuss whether this lack of consideration is based on stubborn refusal to face facts, or whether people ‘see’ what they expect to see, as in an optical illusion.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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2. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,
or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life (1859)
3.
4.
5. Dawkins, Richard [zoologist and Professor for
the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford
University], quot;The Blind Watchmaker,quot; [1986],
Penguin: London, 1991, reprint, p.6.
What if Darwinism fails? What would happen
to “intellectual atheism”?
7. Provine, William B.
[Professor of Biological
Sciences, Cornell
University], quot;Evolution:
Free will and
punishment and
meaning in lifequot;, Abstract
of Will Provine's 1998
Darwin Day Keynote
Address.
8. Simpson, George Gaylord [late Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, USA], quot;The Meaning
of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of its Significance for Man,quot;
[1949], Yale University Press: New Haven CT, 1960, reprint, p.344.
9. Carl Sagan, [astronomer and author]
quot;Cosmos,quot; program entitled quot;One
Voice in the Cosmic Fugue.quot;
“I personally have been captured by the notion of extraterrestrial life,
and especially extraterrestrial intelligence from childhood. It swept me up,
and I've been involved in sending space craft to nearby planets to look for
life and in the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence…”
(NOVA interview - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/carlsagan.html )
10. George Wald, [Nobel
Prize in Physiology,
1967] quot;The Origin of
Life,quot; Physics and
Chemistry of Life,
1955, p. 12.
11. Dawkins, Richard [Zoologist and
Professor for the Public
Understanding of Science,
Oxford University], quot;Put Your
Money on Evolutionquot;, Review of
Johanson D. & Edey M.A.,
quot;Blueprints: Solving the Mystery
of Evolutionquot;, in New York Times,
April 9, 1989, sec. 7, p34.
12.
13. - Richard E Smalley, winner of the 1996
Nobel Prize in chemistry; keynote address
at Tuskegee University’s 79th Annual
Scholarship Convocation/Parents
Recognition Program
1. http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Life-Biblical-Evolutionary-
Models/dp/1576833445/ref=pd_rhf_p_1/105-8093794-4249248
2. http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/oct/05100605.html
14. Michael Behe, professor of
biochemistry at Lehigh
University, Darwin’s Black Box,
The Free Press, 1996
15. Charles Hard Townes,
winner of a Nobel Prize
in Physics and a UC
Berkeley professor
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media
/releases/2005/06/17_townes.shtml
16. Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution
from Space (1981), p. 148, 150.
17.
18. Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra
Wickramasinghe, As quoted in
quot;There Must Be A God,quot; Daily
Express, Aug. 14, 1981 and quot;Hoyle
On Evolution,quot; Nature, Nov. 12,
1981, 105.)
21. Lewontin, Richard C. [Professor of Zoology and Biology, Harvard University,
evolutionary geneticist and social critic], quot;Billions and Billions of Demonsquot;,
Review of quot;The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,quot; by
Carl Sagan, New York Review, January 9, 1997. (Emphasis in original)
22. Dean Kenyon: Author of Biochemical Predestination and leading evolutionary biologist
from the 1960s through the 1970s who eventually became a reluctant believer in Intelligent
Design after being challenged by one of his students to explain protein assembly without
original sequence information
AccessResearch: Focus on Darwinism: Interview Kenyon (sample clip)
34. “Perhaps the extraterrestrials will preface their
message with a string of prime numbers, or
maybe the first fifty terms of the ever-popular
Fibonacci series. Well, there’s no doubt that
such tags would convey intelligence.”
Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute
Seth Shostak, How to Sort Signs of Artificial Life from the Real Thing, SETI
Thursday, Space.com, January 30, 2003
“Why then doesn't the message sequence on the DNA molecule
also constitute prima facie evidence for an intelligent source? After
all, DNA information is not just analogous to a message sequence
such as Morse code, it is such a message sequence.”
Thaxton, Charles B., Walter L. Bradley and Robert L. Olsen:
The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Reassessing Current Theories,
New York Philosophical Library, 1984, p. 211-212.
42. Given enough universes and/or enough time,
this could have happened “naturally” - - time itself
performs miracles; The impossible becomes possible! - - ?
43. See also: The Edge of Evolution
– Michael Behe, June 2007
44. ID Potential
ID Potential
ID Potential
Non-Deliberate Potential
ID Potential
ID Potential
ID Potential