Category Archives: Science

Death before the Fall

Posted on 16/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

Three times in the last week, I’ve encountered YEC objections to old-earth thinking in general, and Genealogical Adam and Eve in particular, that stress the theological importance of the direct relationship between sin and death. One of these was in one of the few negative comments on Josh Swamidass’s YouTube interview (a good watch), one was from a scholar into whose correspondence I was copied, and one was from another Christian academic in a video on another topic.

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You can’t judge a book…

Posted on 13/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

…by looking at the cover But you can at least try. The publisher sent me the proposed cover design for my forthcoming book before the weekend, which delighted me as it matches exactly what I had in mind (so it’s entirely my fault if it’s rubbish!).

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Playing the racist card

Posted on 10/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

Joshua Swamidass’s book on the Genealogical Adam and Eve Hypothesis is doing pretty well on the Amazon bestseller list. I guess that might bode well for my own book on the hypothesis once it comes out, if folks are interested in the possible applications as well as the science of the idea.

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Tall tales in science

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Jon Garvey

I found this short, but useful “entry level” video on the replication crisis in science on YouTube.

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Heidi, hi!

Posted on 31/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I chanced upon an example of my kind of science documentary on TV over the weekend, by courtesy of those nice people at Nature.

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Is wokeness a running-through-treacle dream?

Posted on 28/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

A vegan Green explained to me over Christmas why eating eggs is bad. The problem, it seems, is that poultry bred for egg-laying is sexed at a day old, and the males, being non-productive, are mostly culled for animal feeding or fertilizer. This denies them the right to a meaningful life, which cannot be justified on animal welfare terms. Ergo eating eggs is immoral.

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The dangers of making assumptions about data

Posted on 17/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I commend to you this YouTube presentation by Frank Lansner, from October, which explains and updates his 2018 paper, which is unfortunately behind a paywall:

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Genealogical Adam and Eve

Posted on 13/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

Three days late (to miss the rush) I need to remind you that on 10th, Joshua Swamidass’s book The Genealogical Adam and Eve was published, and has already attracted a number of reviews including one at BioLogos (they got the title wrong initially, like Francisco Ayala did reviewing Stephen Meyer’s Signature in the Cell there back in the day – read more carefully, chaps, if you want to appear sincerely interested).

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I learn how to manipulate the masses (in 1963)

Posted on 10/12/2019 by Jon Garvey

I recently recalled the time, in primary school, when I was able to control the behaviour of my entire school.

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You can’t exclude human influence from science

Posted on 27/11/2019 by Jon Garvey

The title of this blog could refer to a number of things I’ve discussed here over the years. It could mean the fact that science is entirely a human activity, which could be summarised as asking the near-infinite realm of nature particular questions of human interest, to which it will return equally particular and incomplete answers. Or it could refer to the mysterious effects of mind on quantum events. But in fact in this post it’s about something else: providence.

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