Thursday, September 3, 2026

Fråga Säpo, kanske...?

 


Varför säger Kristersson & Co "om detta är sant"? Vet inte regeringen om det faktiskt är det? LOL. 

Kristersson kräver att SD-tjänstemannen slutar

SD öppnar dörren för Kremls hejarklack

129 days

 


For a moment I assumed this was going to be a *hard* climate denialist clip, but it seems to be mostly anti-AI. But perhaps that was a joke? Zabine strikes again! 

Oh, and what are the consequences for biological evolution...?

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

A rich man´s tomb

 

Jesus handing over the Holy Grail to Joseph of Arimathea

What if the resurrection of Jesus can somehow be proven? Or at least made very plausible. What on earth would that solve?! It would simply make everything even more complicated. I mean, the delay of the parousia. And 1000+ other things...

Naftogaz

 

Credit: Naftogaz Ukraini (?)

Varför är inte detta en större nyhet? Det verkar som att beslaget gjordes i Barentsburg (detta nämns dock inte i Yles artikel), som ryssarna med stor sannolikhet betraktar som sitt territorium. Och som de facto nog är det också.

Tänk om Svalbard blir Rysslands nästa måltavla...? 

Norska myndigheter beslagtog ryskt fartyg vid Svalbard

Kramkalas

 

Credit: Ndoduc

Kramkalaset mellan Åkesson och Mohamsson fortsätter. Fast okej, det är väl *lite* pikant med en nyssnasse och en palestinier som båda stödjer Israel, LOL. Nysspalestinier? Vilket dock inte var vad "debatten" handlade om (har inte orkat kolla upp den). 

Bisarr debatt mellan Åkesson och Mohamsson

Rusta och matcha

 


Själv tycker jag mest bara att det är roligt att Arbetsförmedlingens kontrollapparat-på-entreprenad har misslyckats. Och det är stor underhållning när C och L skyller fiaskot på varandra! Apropå den senaste skandalen, och så vidare. 

Provisional living

 

Provisionally dead? 

JMG is just repeating some old stuff here, but...he is right (more or less). 

I sometimes wonder if the prevalence of doom porn has an even more "mundane" explanation: some people don´t think *anything* will change. The doomer stuff is their way of fighting grey boredom in Suburbia.

And yes, I´m old enough to remember the Y2K nothing-burger. Plus a number of other nothing-burgers, both of the apocalyptic and Eternal Progress varieties. 

My prediction is that JMG will still be writing this stuff about 2050! ;-) 

Economics: The Y2K fallacy revisited

Förbannelsen

 


Vad fan har hänt i den svenska valrörelsen? Apropå den senaste väljarbarometern... 

Wednesday

 


Worship Ganesha and be happy! 

Creationism´s Trojan Horse?

 


A recent critique of the so-called Third Way of Evolution (or Third Way). I assumed TWE was a legitimate - albeit controversial - participant in the scientific debates on Neo-Darwinism, but according to the video above, TWE has diplomatic relations with creationists from the Discovery Institute. 

The famed "crisis meeting" at the British Royal Society, which is often mentioned by creationists, was actually called by TWE´s founder Denis Noble himself. In other words, it was simply a TWE-adjacent meeting, not some kind of official scientific conference trying to salvage a evolutionary theory in deep trouble. Some fellows from the Discovery Institute were invited to participate. 

The critics charge that TWE has no scientific standing. That is, their research (if they even do any) isn´t leading anywhere. The more speculative supporters of TWE believe that the individual organism can willingly chose to evolve! There is currently no evidence for this super-Lamarckian take on things.  

Meanwhile, standard evolutionary science has already incorporated other mechanisms besides natural selection working on genetic mutations, for instance epigenetic inheritance, so "narrow Neo-Darwinism" isn´t a thing anymore. This extended synthesis explains things just fine and has lead to huge progress in the medical field (which happens to be Noble´s field).

But note that Sam McKee (the guy on the left in the video) speaks highly of Simon Conway Morris, who is a Christian and believes that evolutionary convergence is an argument for teleology and hence God. Conway Morris recently got a huge grant from the Templeton Foundation. McKee also points to remarkable convergence all across the board in evolution, but never explicitly draws the same conclusion as his collegue. Yet, McKee is a Christian himself. 

Maybe there is more to discover here...