Following up on Grant Sewell’s interesting discussion of consciousness as a hard problem for Darwinism, and my response: In “Brave Newark World”, law prof and columnist Mike S. Adams exposes an Orwellian world of reprogramming inside the dorms at the University of Delaware: Presently, students are actually pressured or even required to take actions that Read More…
Month: October 2007
Low Probability is Only Half of Specified Complexity
In a prior post the order of a deck of cards was used as an example of specified complexity. If a deck is shuffled and it results in all of the cards being ordered by rank and suit, one can infer design. One commenter objected to this reasoning on the grounds that the specified order Read More…
Darwinism’s biggest (and least discussed) problem
The biggest problem of all with Darwinism, in my opinion, is one that is almost never discussed by either side. In my Dec 2005 American Spectator article (updated version here) I tried to express the problem as follows: “When you ask [the modern scientist] how a mechanical process such as natural selection could cause human Read More…
Behe vs. Mothra (no MRSA)
In a prior post DRG wonders how could Behe’s EoE inform the development of drugs that fight antibiotic resistant bacteria? Today’s WSJ, for example, describes the problem of MRSA and other superbugs that defy existing antibiotics. Given the expense of the pharmaceutical development process, an ID-oriented research program ought to reduce the cost of development by Read More…
Today’s Class Project
Alex Tee Neng Heng and David C. Green think they have demonstrated that the “monkeys typing” hypothesis is true here. The class is assigned the task of identifying their blunder.
Darwin Didn’t Get God Off the Hook
As Michael Behe discusses in the article I linked in my last post, Darwinists Kenneth Miller and Francisco Ayala reject ID, because they believe it makes God (if one assumes God is the designer) culpable for all of the pain and misery in the natural world. Ayala goes so far as to suggest that ID Read More…
Behe Outs Miller as ID Proponent
See here: www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A3DGRQ0IO7KYQ2/…
Antony Flew — Still with his head in the game!
A friend of mine and I have been reading Antony Flew’s new book THERE IS A GOD. Flew had been the English-speaking world’s most prominent atheist until Richard Dawkins assumed that role. A few years ago, Flew announced his conversion to theism (though not full-blown Christianity). This caused a stir at the time, but true Read More…
Cambrian Math
I was looking at some numbers concerning the Cambrian explosion. The results were quite stunning to me. Simple life, we are told, emerged 3.8 billion years ago, and the Cambrian Explosion occurred 550 million years ago. In a single 10 million year period (taking the longest estimate), 95% of the animal phyla appeared. The math: For the Read More…
Genetic Entropy and Malarial Parasite P. falciparum
The two most recent books I’ve read are Biochemistry Professor M.Behe’s Edge of Evolution and Cornell geneticist J.Sanford’s Genetic Entropy. Edge of Evolution I found to be amazing. It presented a case history of a eukaryote (P.falciparum) that has replicated billions of trillions of times within a span of a few decades. More importantly this Read More…
Warming Revives Flora and Fauna in Greenland
HT to Phil Johnson for giving me the link. As I’ve been saying, Global Warming isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Check this out… Warming Revives Flora and Fauna in Greenland By SARAH LYALL October 28, 2007 The New York Times NARSARSUAQ, Greenland — A strange thing is happening at the edge of Poul Bjerge’s forest, Read More…
Atheism: An Intellectual Revolt or Pelvic Rebellion?
This is just too funny to pass up. As a preemptive strike against any commenters who feel a need to say “Aha! ID is all about religion” put a sock in it. I filed this under “Humor”. HT to Jon Wells for giving me the link to this article. Atheism: An Intellectual Revolt or Pelvic Read More…
Prebiotic Information Crisis
Package models and the information crisis of prebiotic evolution Daniel A. M. M. Silvestre, Jos´e F. Fontanari http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0710/0710.3278v1.pdf The coexistence of different types of templates has been the choice solution to the information crisis of prebiotic evolution, triggered by the finding that a single RNA-like template cannot carry enough information to code for any useful Read More…
Darwinism seen as old-fashioned materialism
In a recent column, Marvin Olasky observes New York Times columnist John Tierney recently offered a materialist version of “intelligent design”: All of us are actually characters in a computer simulation devised by some technologically advanced future civilization. Fanciful to the extreme, sure, but the growing number of such theories — life comes from the Read More…
Who Says Darwinists Don’t Make Predictions
. . . so long as the predicted event is safely 100,000 years in the future: Human race will split into two different species The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist. 100,000 years into the Read More…