July 2005 – Page 4 – Uncommon Descent

Teaching the Controversy vs. Teaching ID

This just in from a colleague of mine who focuses on the controversy over evolution in the public school science curriculum:

Silver Asiatic Gordon's view: Micro physical properties ... have to inhere in something. What they inhere in is a mental substance, not... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
Barry Arrington Thank you News Desk. – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
Silver Asiatic WJM That’s not really the point. What baffles me is why so-called “non-materialists” (semi-materialists, actually) defend (against the overwhelming scientific... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
jerry Found this thread from almost 2 years ago on “warrant” and will place my comments here on understanding Plantinga’s paper... – Atheism's problem of warrant (--> being,...
Gordon Davisson Jerry @ 15: Let’s assume that any species, say species A is different from all other species in some or... – Common Descent, Common Design, and ID
Silver Asiatic WJM When you dream you are in a solid physical world, is that gravity keeping you on the ground? Is... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
polistra I served prison time in 1969 for marijuana, and learned the difference between professional criminals and circumstantial lawbreakers. They are... – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
Silver Asiatic What makes the Darwinist among them so much more vulnerable? Physics occupies a higher celebrity strata than biology. Krauss and... – Evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala’s membership in...
Sandy Orthomyxo Not sure what value there is in asking someone without a highschool level of understanding about biology to share... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
ET The genetic code is a set of rules involved in the transcription of DNA into mRNA (via RNA polymerase) and... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
Upright BiPed . As the genuine semiotic system that the gene system was predicted (and experimentally confirmed) to be, each object specified... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
orthomyxo The thread is about (Barry's ignorance of) the genetic code. Your post isn't about the genetic code and UB took... – Rob Sheldon on Larry Moran and...
jerry it is reasonably clear why I use warrant, why this is not a triviality, a vague notion or gobbledygook, I... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
Fasteddious You'll give it ten years? Hah, I expect that within a year or two we'll see our first cases of... – Evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala’s membership in...
jerry More from the Plantinga article on warrant. I am going to use the words warrant and justification interchangeably till I... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
johnnyb Gordon - I appreciate the comments. The main sticking point seems to be whether or not there exist sufficient information... – Common Descent, Common Design, and ID
bornagain77 William J Murray states, "Sorry, BA77. Bruce Gordon IS saying there is no material world." But I didn't claim that... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
William J Murray We know the difference between an imagination and reality. We know how to distinguish between different categories of mental experience.... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
William J Murray SA: That's not really the point. What baffles me is why so-called "non-materialists" (semi-materialists, actually) defend (against the overwhelming scientific... – Bruce Gordon and Michael Egnor: Why...
News This is honestly the best defense of the US2A I have ever read. I understand it now. It is easy... – The Twin Peaks of the Second...
Mario A. Lopez I also think common design explains things like genetic hotspots and synteny. Common descent is very good at explaining variation,... – Common Descent, Common Design, and ID