Monthly Archives: March 2006
Darwinian Mechanisms Explain Everything — Even Laughter!
| March 31, 2006 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
I got a chuckle (make that a bellylaugh) out of this article: http://foxnews.webmd.com/content/article/120/113762 Get out your notepad and check off the evolutionary presuppositions, like the notion that laughter predates speech. Make special note of speculation presented as fact. Be aware that the Provine mentioned in this article is not William, but Robert. Here are some […]
Good Democracy, Bad Democracy, and No Democracy
| March 31, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Constitution, Laws |
Henry Neufeld is entitled to an opinion. So are all these people: http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=581 Only 12% of the adults in the U.S. think Darwinian evolution should be taught in a vacuum. Biblical creationism is out on establishment clause grounds but ID is neutral on the nature of the intelligence and widely supported as contrast for unintelligent […]
Origin-of-life problem just went from bad to worse
| March 31, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
(University of Bath) Scientists discovered the minimal genome size needed for the first life increased by a factor of 2. That may seem like a modest rise in complexity, but consider that a target of just 10 bits growing in specificity to 20 bits (a factor of 2) implies that the target is now 1024 […]
No More Establishment Clause for PZ Myers
| March 30, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Myers whines about Witt’s rhetoric comparing evolution, Castro, and popularism. Meanwhile, Myers is perfectly happy to defend evolution via judicial fiat. When a scientist needs to play the constitution card to censor criticism of his pet theory you can rest assured the theory is one that’s in crisis.
Survival of the Fittest Golfer
| March 30, 2006 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
This just in. My morning paper reports that LPGA pro Natalie Gulbis has an extra vertebra in her back that enables her to bring her club so far around she has her back to the target. The random mutation that led to Ms. Galbis’ extra vertebra apparently confers a golfing advantage on her, which in […]
ID vs. evolution debate enters beer market
| March 30, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Is this a kind of Darwinalia, or should I say, Darwin Ale Ia? Evolution Amber Ale (Hat Tip: David Coppedge, Creation Safaris)
Evolution in free-fall
| March 30, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Does Lynn Margulis’s endosymbiosis story resolve evolution’s deep problems? Apparently its resolution of the prokaryote-eukaryote transition is far from secure. The paper below notes that with advances in research “the evolutionary gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is now deeper.” Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges T. Martin Embley and William Martin Nature 440, 623-630 (30 March […]
Finally, Nick Matzke Finds An Opponent That Makes Him Look Smart
| March 30, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
I’d like to be the first to congratulate Nick Matzke on finding an adversary that makes Nick look well versed in science by comparison. It’s about time. Maybe if Nick starting fisking nursery rhymes for bad science he could appear even smarter than he does now.
Flew wins Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth — Who said ID doesn’t pay?!
| March 29, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Press release issued today from Biola University: Former Atheist Receives Award From Intelligent Design Community 29 March 2006 La Mirada, Calif.  British philosopher Antony Flew, once considered the most prominent defender of atheism in the English-speaking world, will accept the Phillip E. Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth on May 11 from Biola University, […]
www.4truth.net
| March 29, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
About a year ago I was asked to commission and collect 30 or so articles on science for an apologetics website run by my denomination, the SBC. The URL for this apologetics website as a whole is www.4truth.net and for the science section is www.4truth.net/site/c.hiKXLbPNLrF/b.786349/k.CAAC/Science.htm. I want to call your attention to two particularly insightful […]
Junk DNA — is it really?
| March 29, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Junk DNA May Not Be So Junky After All 3/23/2006 Researchers at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins have invented a cost-effective and highly efficient way of analyzing what many have termed “junk” DNA and identified regions critical for controlling gene function. And they have found that these control regions from different […]
Yet another feather in natural selection’s cap — now Boolean logic! What hasn’t NS accomplished?
| March 28, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Mutations Change the Boolean Logic of Gene Regulation Richard Robinson DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040064 Published: March 28, 2006 It is easy to think of a gene acting like a light bulb, switching either on or off, remaining silent, or being transcribed by the RNA-making machinery. The region of DNA that controls the gene’s output is called its […]
A Reply to Robert T. Miller
| March 28, 2006 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
This is a letter I sent to First Things today. Dear Editors of First Things: Robert T. Miller argues that Judge Jones’ decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District was correct even though Miller admits that Intelligent Design (ID) is not religion (Darwin in Dover, PA, April 2006). Miller’s conclusion is plainly a non […]
It’s Only Fundamentalist Christians They Hate
| March 28, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Arden Chatfield explains that the Darwinian narrative apologists don’t hate all Christians. That would be wrong says he. They only hate fundamentalist Christians and that’s okay because the fundamentalists, he explains, desire to enslave and dominate others.
Baylor shafts Beckwith
| March 28, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
March 27, 2006 First Things Joseph Bottum Down in Waco, Texas, there is a Baptist school called Baylor University. It was never a major player in American academics, and with the strained situation in which American colleges found themselves at the end of the baby boom, Baylor had problems figuring out what it should do. […]
Darwin Worship Adopted by the Church of Anything Goes
| March 28, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Jack Krebs is crowing about a class on Darwinian dogma put on in conjunction with the Unitarian Universalist “Church”. He plans on preaching to the choir.
Richard Dawkins — ID’s best friend and benefactor
| March 27, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Why the intelligent design lobby thanks God for Richard Dawkins Anti-religious Darwinists are promulgating a false dichotomy between faith and science that gives succour to creationists Madeleine Bunting Monday March 27, 2006 The Guardian On Wednesday evening, at a debate in Oxford, Richard Dawkins will be gathering the plaudits for his long and productive intellectual […]
Another Boner from the Church Burners
| March 27, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Last month the big joke was three college kids torching 9 churches in Alabama. This month it’s making a mockery of the religion of 8 of 10 Americans. The bungling political ineptitude of the Darwin worshippers is just incredible. They’re their own worst enemy.
New Brochure on Kansas Science Standards Sets the Record Straight
| March 27, 2006 | Posted by crandaddy under Education |
Tom Magnuson at ARN “In the News” and Robert Crowther at Evolution News & Views have both reported on a new brochure published by Kansas Science Standards 2005. It’s clear and concise and should really help to dispell any misinformation that has been circulating about.
Lecture at the College of New Jersey on ID
| March 26, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Lecture at TCNJ on intelligent design Saturday, March 25, 2006 EWING — Dr. William Dembski, a mathematician and philosopher, will lecture on “Understanding Intelligent Design” 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Kendall Hall at The College of New Jersey. A question-and-answer session will follow. Dembski is the Carl F.H. Henry Professor of Science and Theology at Southern […]
