New York Times opinion journalist Bari Weiss submitted her very public resignation today. It’s a must read, and it will remind you at once of the world scientists in the intelligent design community have long occupied. Something is seriously wrong with our culture, and thank you to her for recognizing that and not simply going along with it like so many others do.

“A valuable summary of the evidence against the chemical evolution of life… very well thought-out and clearly written.” —Robert Jastrow, founding director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Named for the 18th-century English Presbyterian minister Thomas Bayes, Bayes’ Theorem is a mathematical tool for modelling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. In other words, small pieces of evidence, no single piece by itself of very great weight, can combine to create a massive cumulative case.

To a cell, dying really is a part of life. Billions of cells die in the process of embryonic development, as our organs, fingers, and tissues are sculpted. That’s a wonderful thing. Nevertheless, tissues face real challenges in all stages of cell death, from deciding what cells need to bow out, to disposing of the “corpses” afterward. The cellular morgue is exquisitely designed for the challenge.

Congrats to the PR team of Chutzpah, Cheek, and Insolence who scored big with the work they appear to have done for atheist Lawrence Krauss. The cosmologist has now emerged, earlier than anticipated, from under a major #MeToo cloud that resulted in his forced departure from his university and temporary disappearance from a role as a public figure.