Month: May 2006

Ultimate Questions “Scientific knowledge is a malleable body of information that changes over time, as new tools are applied and new facts are integrated,” says Bryce Paschal, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at U.Va. “Good science identifies weak links in what is known. Science should acknowledge the shortcomings in evolutionary science, especially Read More…

In an earlier post (go here), I remarked: Have a listen to the following segment from Dawkins’s documentary against religion (”The Root of All Evil?”): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUy-Uq3WuhA Who is the rapper that did this rendition of the Lord’s Prayer? The first comment on this previous post implicated Al Nezy, “Da PreachaMan,” as the rapper responsible for Read More…

Early nonsense: mRNA decay solves a translational problem Nadia Amrani, Matthew S. Sachs and Allan Jacobson http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v7/n6/pdf/nrm1942.pdf [Here are some excerpts:] The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway ensures that incomplete messenger RNAs that harbour premature termination, or nonsense (non Amino acid coding), codons are targeted for rapid degradation. New insights into the process of NMD Read More…

It seems even the New England Journal of Medicine is unable to honestly charactarize what ID is. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/21/2277

Here’s the transcript for the previous posting. It’s comforting to know that popular culture is in such capable hands. A new Zogby international poll shows that 69% of Americans support public school teachers presenting the theory of evolution as well as theories that are in opposition. If only there were any that didn’t have God Read More…

Here is the transcript of the May 11 speech in New York by Patricia Princehouse, as she accepted a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award from the Playboy Foundation for her efforts to preserve science education in Ohio public schools. Note that Eugenie Scott received this same award in 1999 (go here). SCIENCE AND THE Read More…

Interesting how pro-science has come to mean anti-ID. It reminds me of how pro-choice has come to mean anti-life. It’s going to become increasingly difficult in coming days for evolutionists to maintain the charade that they are “pro-science” — after all, pro-science means following the evidence wherever it leads. By the way, I now own Read More…

Yes, it tastes like real science, but it has zero calories and cannot sustain life. [From a colleague:] Why are scientists admitting that current origin of life chemistry is vexing or even dead? Why else does it need “new life breathed into it”? “One of the most vexing questions facing biologists is how life on Read More…

Heal Thyself: Systems Biology Model Reveals How Cells Avoid Becoming Cancerous http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060521103656.htm Scientists at the University of California, San Diego and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed to a powerful chemical mutagen. The group led Read More…

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. –Mahatma Gandhi Exam Question: Which stage are we in with the ID debate and what will victory look like? Extra Credit: How long till victory? Justify your answer.

In his 139-page decision, Judge Jones revealed his deficiencies in science. In his commencement address described below, he reveals his deficiencies in history. Note the passage in bold. Who among our nation’s founding fathers believed that the essence of religion is an Enlightenment rationalism that eschews design? None of them. Even Jefferson would be on Read More…

Have a listen to the following segment from Dawkins’s documentary against religion (“The Root of All Evil?”): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUy-Uq3WuhA Who is the rapper that did this rendition of the Lord’s Prayer? For your further edification, here is another bit of vintage Dawkins from that documentary: The God of the Old Testament has got to be the Read More…

Researcher Brings Intelligent Design to Mind By RICHARD MONASTERSKY When the leaders of the intelligent-design movement gathered for a secret conference this month in California, most of the talks focused on their standard concerns: biochemistry, evolution, and the origin of the universe. But they also heard from an ally in the neurosciences, who sees his Read More…

How Does The Lowly Bacterium Sense Its Environment? Cornell Researchers Discover Lattice Of Supersensitive Receptors When humans taste or smell, receptors unique to each nerve cell detect the chemical and send signals to the brain, where many cells process the message to understand what we are smelling or tasting. But a bacterium is just a Read More…