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Is It the End for Silicon Valley?

_{Walter Myers III
February 9, 2022}

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of hybrid work, and allowed many workers to operate remotely. What does this mean for major tech centers like Silicon Valley and Seattle?

Critical Race Theory: Intriguing, but Wrong for K-12 Education

_{Walter Myers III
January 19, 2022}

CRT is a movement of admitted far-left scholars who wish to challenge power structures represented in the American legal culture and society with respect to “the rule of law” and “equal protection.” Their belief is that whereas our laws are ostensibly “neutral” and “objective,” they are neither — and never could have been objective in the first place because of the racial dynamic that has been exercised legally and ideologically over the course of American history.

Critical Race Theory: Intriguing, But Wrong for K-12 Education

_{Walter Myers III
January 19, 2022}

Critical Race Theory (CRT), a relatively young legal theory that has been circulating in legal academic circles since the 1980s, suddenly burst on the scene of public consciousness in the past year. It continues to be a topic of controversy due to its being advocated for inclusion in K-12 instruction.

Is the Human Neck a “Mistake of Evolution”?

_{Walter Myers III
October 20, 2021}

Darwin asserted the “absurdity” of evolution designing a shared opening to the esophagus and trachea (windpipe).

The Rise in Black Unemployment Is About More Than Race

_{Bridging the economic gap between black and white workers starts with bridging the achievement gap in K–12 education.}_{Walter Myers III
September 16, 2021}

AFL-CIO chief economist William Spriggs argued that the primary cause for disappointing black employment numbers is discrimination. While there may be some correlation, the primary factor inhibiting black economic attainment is the failure of urban public schools to adequately prepare students for post-secondary education.

Orange County Seeks to Slip Critical Race Theory into Ethnic Studies Curriculum

_{Walter Myers III
September 2, 2021}

My greatest worry is a California public school system that promotes a divisive ideology discouraging black and brown children from aiming high, and further fails to educate them to give them a fighting chance to be successful regardless of the obstacles they may face in life.

Hierarchical Systems in Biology — DNA Packaging

_{Walter Myers III
September 2, 2021}

It is hard to fathom that such a highly complex, hierarchical mechanism of information storage on a microscopic scale could come about purely by chance.

Critical Race Theory – The Marxist Trojan Horse

_{Walter Myers III
August 5, 2021}

I think parents finally understand why so many of their children who go off to college full of hope leave those institutions with a disdain for America and our capitalist system.

NASA Is Overselling Its Mars Perseverance Mission

_{Walter Myers III
March 1, 2021}

Synthetic organic chemist James Tour, of Rice University, has shown the folly of NASA scientists and others in a number of videos.

Viruses, the Immune System, and Computer Systems

_{Walter Myers III
February 9, 2021}

Virus detection in computer programs is primarily implemented using a signature-based technique.

Plant Diversity and Computer Programming

_{Walter Myers III
January 21, 2021}

I asked the gardener how come, after all these years, the soil in my geranium pots is at roughly the same level.

Stranger on a Plane: Lessons from Flatland

_{Walter Myers III
June 26, 2019}

In 1884, English clergyman Edwin A. Abbott published a work of scientific and mathematical fantasy.

On Book Tour, Marcos Eberlin Sparks Thought About the ID Movement

_{Walter Myers III
May 8, 2019}

During the Q&A, an attendee asked why intelligent design proponents don’t just come out and explicitly say the designer is God.

Measles “Hacking” the Body?

_{Walter Myers III
March 11, 2019}

In previous articles I have discussed how biological organisms exhibit patterns that are highly analogous to computer programs written by humans.

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

_{Walter Myers III
August 10, 2018}

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive.

The Problem with “Bad Design” Arguments

_{Walter Myers III
May 8, 2018}

In a physical world there will be design constraints, so it is only realistic to expect tradeoffs.

Computer Software Sheds Light on Human and Chimp DNA Similarity

_{Walter Myers III
March 22, 2018}

Recently I had the opportunity to hear Discovery Institute’s Stephen Meyer provide an update on the progress and current state of the theory of intelligent design.

Are Methodological Naturalism and Philosophical Naturalism the Same? A Dissent

_{Walter Myers III
May 5, 2017}

In a previous post, I argued that methodological naturalism is a reasonable and neutral working principle limiting everyday science to natural causes.

In Refusing to Identify a “Designer,” ID Proponents Aren’t Being Coy

_{Walter Myers III
April 4, 2017}

Each year, my students at Biola University ask the same wholly legitimate question about intelligent design.

Is There a Limit to the Number of a Designer’s Creative Acts?

_{Walter Myers III
February 7, 2017}

Recently, I was listening to Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1068, followed a couple of days later by watching the Tom Cruise movie Oblivion. What does one have to do with the other? Well, the latter includes in the soundtrack the song “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by the 1960s English rock group Procol Harum, and it occurred to me that “A Whiter Shade” may be based on Bach. A little research revealed that the organ countermelody of “A Whiter Shade” is, indeed, based on BWV 1068. The song itself is an adaptation of Bach’s church cantata, Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe (“I am standing with one foot in the grave”), BWV 156. Bach is among the most prolific and accomplished composers of all time, credited with in excess …