Monthly Archives: September 2007
Design: All The Way Down
| September 30, 2007 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design, Science |
It’s not turtles all the way down; it’s design all the way down: from the constants of physics, to the production of life-permitting chemical elements in supernovae that are coincidentally unstable and spew out these elements to produce rocky planets on which life can exist, to the characteristics of carbon formed in a very narrow […]
Design at many levels
| September 30, 2007 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
In the popular media, the picture that we get of the ID controversy is this: primitive man attributed many phenomena in Nature to design, science has progressively removed the need for the design hypothesis from these phenomena one by one, and now a group of religious fanatics is trying to make a last stand in […]
World Net Daily on “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”
| September 29, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Ben Stein to battle Darwin in major film Actor-commentator stars in ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ Ben Stein, the lovable, monotone teacher from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “The Wonder Years” is back in the classroom in a major motion picture release slated for February 2008. But this time, the actor will be on the big […]
Book review: Science’s Blind Spot: Making sense of Darwin’s devout
| September 28, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
When I first encountered Biola adjunct prof Cornelius G. Hunter’s Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007), I was intrigued by the possibility that it might help me understand the people who want to destroy the careers of anyone who doubts that Darwinian evolution can produce mind from […]
Futility 101
| September 28, 2007 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Heard about the Council of Europe’s draft resolution against ID. Sighed. Smiled to myself. And then I took my worn paperback copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance down from the shelf: The real University…has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries and receives no material dues. The real University […]
George Orwell’s New Europe
| September 27, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Here are extracts from the Council of Europe’s Draft Resolution against ID, Creation, and anything that does not toe the materialist line. Note the passages in bold. A. Draft resolution 1. For some people the Creation, as a matter of religious belief, gives a meaning to life. Nevertheless, the Parliamentary Assembly is worried about the […]
EXPELLED makes front page of NYTimes
| September 27, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
I can’t say I feel sorry for these atheistic scientists in agreeing to interview for EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED. When the BBC interviewed me for their Horizon documentary on ID (Horizon = the UK version of PBS Nova), they gave the ID side no warning that the program would be titled A WAR ON SCIENCE […]
Stu Pivar’s book Lifecode: So what’s in it? Why the fuss?
| September 26, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Okay, here at last is Jerry Bergman’s review of Stuart Pivar’s Lifecode. Yes, Stu Pivar was the friend of Steve Gould who was suing and then unsuing PZ Myers. Also, note the new book announcement about Jerry Bergman.
“Ayala’s Potemkin Village” — review of Francisco Ayala’s DARWIN’S GIFT
| September 26, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Francisco Ayala’s latest book, DARWIN’S GIFT TO SCIENCE AND RELIGION, defends Darwinism against ID. For my review of that book for Science & Theology, go here.
What does it mean to be scientifically literate in the 21st century?
| September 26, 2007 | Posted by leebowman under Culture, Education, Science |
How do we measure the scientific literacy of a society? How do we boost it? What is the value of this literacy? Who is responsible for fostering it? These were questions posed by Seed Magazine to its readers in its second annual Science Writing Contest. Among the judges were Adam Bly, editor-in-chief and founder of […]
ID And The Arts
| September 25, 2007 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
Where does artistic expression come from? Why do almost all of us, as humans, seem to have an insatiable desire to create? Why do certain works of art endure over centuries?
Why Bob Marks’s lab got trashed
| September 25, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here’s what I think of the whole mess (and I am not an American and do not live anywhere near Waco or Baylor and have nothing but trouble to expect from either side in this matter.):
John Lennox: His new book and his upcoming debate with Dawkins
| September 25, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
“God’s Undertaker – Has Science Buried God?” by John Lennox, has now appeared with Lion-Hudson in the UK and with Kregel in the US. The book had previously appeared in Germany (Lennox knows German very well) and had an enormous impact there. Lennox is a Reader in Mathematics and Fellow of Green College, University of […]
The evolution of feathers. Watch the time line.
| September 25, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
From “Evo-Devo of feathers and scales: building complex epithelial appendages” http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~cmchuong/2000CurrOpinGenetandDev.pdf p5 and p6 “Archeopteryx existed ~145 million years ago and appears relatively advanced: it has different types of feathers over the body but still has teeth, claws in the wing, and a feathered tail. The flight feathers in the wing are asymmetric, suggesting that […]
The Emerging Complexity of the Genome
| September 24, 2007 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Recently, a friend who thinks about (and has published on) the nature of the eukaryotic genome, said to me, “Paul, no one really knows what the genome is any more.” He went on to explain that the picture most biologists carry around in their heads, of the relationship of genes to organismal form and function […]
I was wondering how Michaelangelo did it…
| September 23, 2007 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
A block of Carrera marble and a large crane, apparently. Didn’t know about the Clorox® either. So that’s why my asparagus never tastes quite right: keep forgetting to add the chlorine. (HT: Jason)
Intelligent Design: menace made in America [again]?
| September 23, 2007 | Posted by Markus Rammerstorfer under Intelligent Design |
See my short article in the Michigan Tech Lode (week of 2007-09-19): click here
Persecution of the Other Side
| September 22, 2007 | Posted by Patrick under Intelligent Design |
While it’s routine to hear of ID proponents being persecuted–and there are many more stories than the high profile cases mentioned here on UD–sometimes we may forget that the same may happen to Darwinists. I was reading Darwiniana today and this article by MSNBC caught my eye:
Real Simulations, Cartoon Simulations, and Evolutionary Informatics
| September 22, 2007 | Posted by GilDodgen under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Darwinism, Informatics |
Computer programs that purport to validate the grand claims of Darwinian (i.e., chance and necessity) biological evolution are a hoot. In early August my aerospace R&D company sent me off to Livermore, CA for a four-day course in using a finite element analysis (FEA) simulation program called LS-DYNA, originally developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. […]
Evolution in the light of intelligent design – New entries
| September 22, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here are the new entries to the Encyclopedia: Evolution in the light of intelligent design Acritarchs – oldest known protists (Tyler) The picture emerging of the Late Archaean is one that includes prokaryotes and eukaryotes, photosynthesis, an oxygenated atmosphere and lots of biological activity. This is a big contrast from the picture even 10 years […]
