Monthly Archives: August 2005
Nobody Expects the Spanish Darwinian Inquisition
| August 31, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
Richard Sternberg, Guillermo Gonzalez, Caroline Crocker. Is there a pattern? Go here. Note especially this story about Gonzalez: go here.
John Patterson — Now and Then
| August 31, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
John Patterson is one of the Iowa State faculty currently opposing ID and Guillermo Gonzalez (go here). Patterson, an avowed atheist, has a history of censoring ideas inconsistent with his atheism. As one of my colleagues reports:
Masculinity-Threatened Men
| August 31, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
According to the 26Aug2005 issue of THE WEEK (p. 20), “Researchers at Cornell University tested the effect of insecurity on men’s attitudes by giving a survey on gender identity to about 50 men. The men were then told that an analysis of the survey showed that they exhibited ‘weak’ male characteristics — indeed, that their […]
“Most Scientific Papers Are Probably Wrong”
| August 31, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Lehigh University biologists have, just shy of a consensus, condemned intelligent design (the lone dissenter — surprise, surprise — is Michael Behe). The various anti-ID blogs (go here and here) are crowing about this, as though this vindicates their criticism of ID and, to boot, must somehow be disconcerting to us. Quite the contrary.
Hate Mail with a Religious Theme
| August 31, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Now and again I receive irate emails. The funniest of these come from Peter Pajakowski, who makes me appreciate the Polish jokes I heard growing up in Chicago. For the record, I have no shame, enjoy the attacks of critics, and think I’m completely right. So there. Enjoy the following two letters:
Tom Bethell on “Cancer Genes”
| August 30, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
When an erroneous theory is rewarded with the top prize in science, abandoning that theory is difficult. The backtracking required is an embarrassment to all.
“Taking Down Darwin”
| August 30, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Taking Darwin Down Emma Schwartz Legal Times (http://www.legaltimes.com) 08-29-2005
John Mark Reynolds in Touchstone — Out of Touch?
| August 30, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
My friend and colleague John Mark Reynolds at Biola University has just published a piece in Touchstone titled “Séances & Science: The Lessons of the Spiritualist Challenge to Darwinism” (go here). The piece is meant as a warning to the ID movement not to repeat mistakes of the past.
The Undermining of Science?
| August 30, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
If intelligence is a real causal power in the natural world that is not reducible to the law-governed interactions of matter and energy, then how can intelligent design avoid undermining science? This worry can be restated as follows:
Calling Dennett’s Bluff
| August 29, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
When it comes to the evolution-ID controversy, Daniel Dennett seems to forget that he is a philosopher, foregoing rigorous argumentation for bold, but unsupported, assertions.
“Intrinsic Intelligence”
| August 29, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Just Check the ID By Sally Jenkins Monday, August 29, 2005 Washington Post ….Jeffrey M. Schwartz, a neuroscientist and research professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, is a believer in ID, or as he prefers to call it, “intrinsic intelligence.”
ID in Greece
| August 29, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
From a colleague in Greece:
Bill Buckley on ID
| August 27, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
In the United States, the battlefront is in the schools, on the question of evolution and creationism. If a 14-year-old student is introduced to the contingent possibility that life evolved as it did because its creator so willed it, which of the following risks, from the hard-line evolutionists’ point of view, is that student taking? […]
Have Darwinists “Jumped the Shark”?
| August 27, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
From an ID supporter (let’s hope he is right):
ID in Italy
| August 27, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
ID is in the news in Italy. The University of Milan has published an article on recent developments in ID in the U.S. (Vita e pensiero, vol. 4, September 2005). A preview of that article was published in a national newspaper called L’Avvenire, 13 August 2005, p. 23 by a journalist named Luigi Dell’Aglio, and […]
ID in Australia
| August 27, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/08/26/1124563033629.html
ID in Canada
| August 27, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
“Blind Science” by Ted Byfield: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45996
Dawkins: Treat ID Proponents the Same as Holocaust Deniers
| August 26, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Location of incident: “European Forum Alpbach,” (http://www.alpbach.org/English/indexen.htm), work group “06: From scientific journal to breaking news: science and the media (EN)” Date of incident: Friday August 26, 2005
ID Cartoon Wars
| August 26, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050819/OPINION02/308190001/1093 vs. http://www.markfiore.com/animation/super.html
Does Hector Avalos Want to Get Guillermo Gonzalez Fired?
| August 26, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
“We want to make sure the public and the university start to voice their opposition to intelligent design,” Avalos said. What’s next? Petitioning Guillermo to turn in his telescope? MORE
