This forthcoming book by Antonio Paris looks promising: Space Science: Challenges for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis of UFO Phenomenon. The link says that the book will "addresses what the UFO community conveniently fails to address." For what those failures are,...
Science & Theology
Is Speculation Science?
It is when it's about the search for extraterrestrial life and panspermia. In yet another example of just this, I'd invite you all to read "Far-Off Planets Like the Earth Dot the Galaxy." Have any of these planets actually been identified? No. Have any of them yielded...
NASA and 3-D Printing
I had to say something about this recent article from DeZeen: "NASA Develops 3-D Printing Factory in Space." I just finished the draft for The Portent, and there's a scene in it that involves the marriage of nanotechnology (and/or synthetic biology) and 3-D printing....
Exposing PseudoAstronomy vs. David Sereda
Exposing PseudoAstronomy is a podcast hosted by Stuart Robbins. (Stuart is a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy whose focus is on planetary geophysics). I highly recommend it. He just posted the latest episode: Podcast Episode 83: David Sereda’s Claims Clip Show,...
Templeton Foundation Funding Search for Alien Spacecraft … Really
The Templeton foundation has awarded $200,000 to astronomer Geoff Marcy (UC-Berkeley) to see if he can detect alien spacecraft passing in front of distant stars. Before you laugh, Marcy is easily the most famous astronomer among those detecting extra-solar planets....
DNA as Indicative of Intelligent Design: New Peer-Reviewed Journal Article with a SETI Twist
The Uncommon Descent blog reports that "in the planetary science journal, Icarus, two scientists argue that the genetic code bears the hallmarks of an intelligent cause." The blog quotes the abstract which reads in part: It has been repeatedly proposed to expand the...
More Functions for Junk DNA
In another blow to the "junk DNA is vestigial extraterrestrial DNA that proves aliens made us" buffoonery, Science Daily recently posted an overview of a new scientific paper in the peer-reviewed journal Genome Biology that demonstrates that junk DNA is (wait for it)...
Intelligent Design and Nobel Laureates
From time to time I post on intelligent design (ID) here, as that perspective on origins could be (and has been) offered as a backdrop for any intelligent ET life that might be found out in the universe someday. That is, the Designer would also have designed alien...
News Flash: Junk DNA Isn’t Junk — And It’s Human
A month ago I appeared on Coast to Coast AM. I've been on the show many times, and when I'm a guest, I try to set up a hub on my homepage for listeners to get quick access to areas on my websites and blogs that will no doubt come up in the course of the conversation....
Probability of ET Life Arbitrarily Small
That's the verdict of astrobiologists on the MIT Technology Review. Now, despite the iterative hoopla on the web and in the popular media about how there *must* be ET life out there, this isn't the first time mainstream scientists have argued that the possibility of...
Junk DNA as Evidence of ET Life in our Genes? Try Again.
There have been a number of news items and articles recently (last year - I collect them) on how "junk DNA" is now known to not be junk. Here's an example. As genetic research continues to advance, this previously-assumed junk DNA (called so because it had no...
New Evidence for a 14th Century Shroud of Turin Date
Before you say, "well that's obvious," you should be aware that there is serious science behind the idea that the C-14 dating for the shroud is suspect due to contamination (see The DNA of God?: Newly Discovered Secrets of the Shroud of Turin; the author is a...
Evolutionary Biology Consensus: The Death Throes
I post this not because it has anything directly to do with UFO Religions, but it does bear peripherally on our discussions. Many alien life enthusiasts (not to mention intelligent design critics in general) are fond of appealing to the assured results of evolutionary...
Stephen Hawking’s Latest Atheist Ex-Cathedra Statement Debunked
A segment of the debunking appears below. It's an interview about Hawking's denial of an actual beginning of the universe by Alister McGrath and Roger Penrose. For those not familiar with either, McGrath has earned doctorates in both molecular biophysics and theology....
Stephen Hawking’s Category Confusion
It just goes to show that smart people can be awfully blind to obvious things. Mathematician John Lennox does a nice job here at showing how Hawking's recent dictum that God didn't create the universe is incoherent -- and nothing new.