Brian Miller greatly appreciated the opportunity to interact with physicist Jeremy England in the journal Inference. Says Miller, “His response to my article is both collegial and thoughtful. In reality, the difference in our views stems less from our understanding of the science than from the different contexts in which we analyze the theory and the experimental data.”

Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) is pleased to invite you to join its upcoming webinar on Science, Scientism, and Society featuring experts from Discovery Institute. This online event will explore the role of science and scientism in some of the most important questions facing our society today. Can science, as a tool of understanding, be used to both advance, and sometimes harm, human flourishing?

“We can safely conclude that, contrary to common misconception, there exists zero compelling evidence for the existence of any genuine Precambrian fossil sponges,” writes German paleo-entomologist Günter Bechly. “Unambiguous sponges only appear in the Cambrian explosion together with the other animal phyla.”

The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook, a new book on cosmology by Luke Barnes and Geraint Lewis, is essentially a handbook for people who don’t agree with the current consensus on cosmology and want to overthrow it. In truth, anyone interested in cosmology, skeptic or not, will get much from their book.

A parade of amazing designs from the living world has passed through these pages over the years, and it shows no sign of stopping. Some examples include the high-jumping capabilities of flea beetles, the tail design of dolphins, and the infrared vision of some shrimp.