300 Foxes and a Donkey's Jawbone
This day in August
National Park Service Rangers have confirmed the collapse of a frequently visited arch in Rock Creek Bay in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah, which occurred on August 8, 2024.
The classification of plants animals and minerals is called taxonomy or systematics. Our scientific background is plant systematics. The modern age of systematics is based on comparing DNA sequences.
In the fall of 1990 we began the graduate program in Plant Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On our first day we were shown around Coker Hall by a senior graduate student
In 1991 we (me and the Holy Spirit) scared the faculty at Duke by demonstrating a flaw in the use of cladistic phylogenetic analysis to study the Devonian fossil Archaeopteris.
We're critical of the philosophical construction of the scientific method because it's been meticulously crafted to exclude any possibility that the truth can be either an acceptable premise, or a possible conclusion.