Earlier on this blog, DaveScot cited Michael Shermer’s account of the Word Summit on Evolution that took place in the Galapagos Islands last month (go here for Shermer’s account in the Scientific American). TomG then raised the following question (for the thread in which he did so, go here): Read More ›
I appreciate emails like this by ID skeptics who are genuine in their skepticism and see through the sham skepticism of persons who may appropriately be described as secular fundamentalists: Read More ›
[Sorry my original posting here was a bit gruff. Let me rephrase it as follows:] I’m happy to respond to questions that are raised in the comments on this blog provided they are pertinent to the thread in which they appear and provided I have the time. On the other hand, questions out of the blue with no relevance to a thread will be deleted. If you want to pose such questions, first be sure you’ve actually read some of my work (I’ve got a whole Q&A book titled The Design Revolution). If, after reading my stuff, you still don’t find the answer, email me (some of my email address(es) can be found at www.designinference.com). I receive lots of emails, Read More ›
Here’s an image I found amusing that someone sent me about my lack of faith in Darwinism. I’ve always wanted an image of Darwin and me as professional wrestlers with me doing a piledriver on him. If you’ve got the photoshop skills and more time on your hands than you know what to do with . . . . Read More ›
Author Jack Cashill, veteran of the Kansas Darwinian controversies, has just published Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture (Thomas Nelson, 2005). Cashill includes a chapter on “Darwin’s Heirs.” It’s available from Amazon for $16.49.
Guillermo Gonzalez has issued the following response to the attacks leveled at him following the June showing of the Privileged Planet at the Smithsonian:
Read More ›Science, Vol 309, Issue 5731, 51 , 1 July 2005
Letters
Evangelical Biologists and Evolution Read More ›
This just in from a colleague of mine who focuses on the controversy over evolution in the public school science curriculum: Read More ›
Philip Clayton, a professor at the Claremont School of Theology, asked me to contribute an article to The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science that he is editing. He asked me specifically to write on the topic “In Defense of Intelligent Design” for the section titled “Central Theoretical Debates in Religion and Science: Intelligent Design and Its Critics.” Robert Pennock is the other contributor to that section. For my article, go here.
TRIZ (a Russian acronym that is usually translated “theory of inventive problem solving” and is pronounced treez) was developed by Russian scientists and engineers trying to understand technological evolution. I’ve touched on TRIZ’s relevance to ID in a number of my writings (go here, for instance). Some useful sites for understanding TRIZ are the following: Read More ›
Check out the following pps file here (keep clicking to view slide show). Thanks Dennis White!
There are now a number of initiatives nationally in which evolution is being challenged and ID promoted. What would happen if the courts rule against ID, declaring it religion? In the long term, this prospect is of little consequence because the momentum is now with ID and the inertia with evolution. Read More ›