Brief History Cobb County, Georgia, adopted new biology texts which for the first time in Cobb County had a section on evolution. Concerned parents voiced their concern to the school board that the evolution section was presented in a manner that left no room for doubt, effectively presenting as fact something the parents did not Read More…
Month: January 2006
(Offtopic) Italian Court to Decide the Existence of Jesus
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[Offtopic:] Mammon as a ” Spiritual Provider”
I saw this parody ad (from Adbusters) years ago when I was a postdoc at Notre Dame and nearly busted a gut. Turns out it’s difficult to track this down on the web. I’ve therefore posted it here for my future reference and your amusement.
Leave it to a Red State to come through in time of need
Source: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/6perry.html Perry: Add intelligent design to teaching Theory has a place in Texas schools, he says; most rivals disagree By W. Gardner Selby AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Friday, January 06, 2006 Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican who has made outreach to Christian conservatives a theme of his gubernatorial portfolio, thinks Texas public school students should be Read More…
Engines of Creation Series (#1)
I’ve decided to write a series of articles touching upon ID-relevant portions of the seminal book describing the nanotechnology revolution “Engines of Creation” by K. Eric Drexler. The book was originally published in hardcover in 1986 and purchased/read by me that year. This year marks its 20th anniversary and is a good point to take Read More…
Robert Frost on Design
Robert Frost is sometimes cited as being critical of design and theism generally. For instance, one finds the following quote at http://www.pharyngula.org/infidelquotes.php:
Intelligent Design: It’s All About God
Glenn McGee of “The Scientist” writes this: A leading synthetic biologists said to me recently that she is working so hard on building and animating an artificial bacterium primarily so that she can prove to advocates of intelligent design that it doesn’t take a God to create life. I wish her luck, and Godspeed. I Read More…
Arnold Loewy of the News Observer on the Constitutionality of ID in Public School Classrooms
Go here for the article.
Bradley Monton — Important Article on Dover
Bradley Monton, a Princeton-trained philosopher on the faculty at the University of Kentucky, has an important piece on Dover here. Though Monton is not an ID proponent (he is a philosopher of physics who in his professional work is quite critical of fine-tuning as evidence for God), he exhibits little patience for the reasoning in Read More…
Introducing Myself…
Hello, everyone. For my first contribution, I just want to let you guys know what you can expect from me and what I expect from you. What you can expect from me: My posts will probably be similar to those of Dr. Dembski, but due to my busy schedule, I seriously doubt I will be Read More…
An Uncommon Resurrection Comic
Credit must go to Scott R. Kurtz for the original PvP cartoon.
The Resurrection of Uncommon Descent
By popular demand this blog is back in operation, though with only limited participation in the future from me. Past contributors to this blog have decided they are willing to shoulder the responsibility of maintaining this blog, namely, DaveScot, Bombadill, Crandaddy, and Gumpngreen. Unlike in the past, when they were limited to commenting on my Read More…