Category Archives: Science

The Evolution Debate: Transitional Fossils

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

According to proponents of evolution, PRATTs are Points Refuted a Thousand Times—arguments by creationists against evolution that are easily refuted, yet keep coming up again and again. I’ve dissected a few of them so far to try to figure out … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Debate: Micro v. Macro

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

VS I’m slowly moving forward with my series about evolution. In my previous posts, here and here, I’ve tried to explore why debates between evolution and creationism are so unproductive. One thing I’ve noticed is people on both sides of … Continue reading →

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The Evolution Debate: What is Evolution?

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

Previous post in this series: Why are there still monkeys? I wrote before about one of the problems with the creation v. evolution debate being PRATTs, or “Points Refuted a Thousand Times.” In that post, I explained why “If humans … Continue reading →

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Happy Pi Day

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

Celebrate by eating pie. Preferably at 1:59 and 26 seconds. Or memorizing digits of pi. Or reading science fiction because it’s also Einstein’s birthday. I recommend Contact because it involves both Einstein-Rosen bridges (wormholes) and pi!

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Aron Ra, Kent Hovind, and the Evolution Debate

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

Over the past several months, Christian creationist Kent Hovind and militant atheist Aron Ra held an extended YouTube debate about the evidence for evolution. (You can see Hovind’s challenge here and the first video of the debate, by Aron Ra, … Continue reading →

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Highlights from the AAS Conference

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

For the past week, over three thousand astronomers from all over the world (including yours truly) met in Seattle, Washington for the American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting, the largest astronomy conference in the world. Much science was announced and discussed, … Continue reading →

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On Covering Science News

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Alex R. Howe

I feel like I’ve been pretty lax about talking about science news stories here. This blog is called Science Meets Fiction, but lately, when I have time to post at all, it only seems to be about fiction. Part of … Continue reading →

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Could Mortal Engines’ Municipal Darwinism Work?

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Alex R. Howe

In Mortal Engines, based on the book series by Philip Reeve, in a post-apocalyptic wasteland ravaged by nuclear war, the surviving settlements have become “traction cities,” putting themselves on wheels to roam what was once Eurasia (an area known in … Continue reading →

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The Kilogram Is Redefined (and Other Units, too)

Posted on November 21, 2018 by Alex R. Howe

The kilogram, as my international readers will know is the official unit of mass in the metric system—or more precisely, the International System of Units (SI). But less well known is that until today, the kilogram has been defined not … Continue reading →

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A Study in Parallel Universes: the Weakless Universe

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Alex R. Howe

I haven’t written about my work much on this blog. I’ve mostly kept to interesting science stories in the news or the community, but since this is a website for science as well as science fiction, I wanted to talk … Continue reading →

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