In late October, celebrated (former) atheist Antony Flew’s long-awaited There IS a God, with Roy Varghese, appeared. It is an elegant little book, as one might expect from a British philosopher. Its sparkling clarity does more than illuminate Antony Flew’s change of mind on the subject of God. Authorship controversy? Well, yes, some argue that […]
Month: December 2007
Sunday fun: Humor in the intelligent design controversy
Studying all the time? That’s alarming. Quit before your brain develops a saddle shape from the sheer weight of your learning. Take a break and have some fun.
Evolution and the NFL theorems
Ronald Meester CLICK HERE FOR THE PAPER Department of Mathematics, VU-University Amsterdam, “William Dembski (2002) claimed that the NoFreeLunch-theorems from op- timization theory render Darwinian biological evolution impossible. I argue that the NFL-theorems should be interpreted not in the sense that the models can be used to draw any conclusion about the real biological evolution (and certainly […]
Today at The Design of Life blog: How did caterpillars start to become butterflies?
Or perhaps one should ask, how did butterflies start to become caterpillars? Caution: Some pretty radical theorizing here. Also: Today at the Post-Darwinist Alley Oop, if you lie to me one more time …
“Making Space for Time” – Is cosmic order evidence for ID?
Making Space for Time – Physicists meet to puzzle out why time flows one way. Scott Dodd. Scientific American, January 2008 p 26,27,28. This article cites physicists invoking multiverses to explain high order in the early cosmos – and that less order would have prevented universes from surviving or evolving to support intelligent life. […]
Design of Life: Molecular clock – right twice a day?
2006 and 2007 have been years in which a number of key science papers addressed things we know – that ain’t so. One story is the serious challenges to the long contested “molecular clock” theory. [ … ] In the science literature, many adjustments are offered to make the fossil record and molecular data match. […]
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin?
Another Darwin Biography Ecclesiastes tells us, “Of making books there is no end,” and nowhere is that a greater truism than in the ever growing corpus of Darwiniana. At present writing OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), the world’s largest bibliographic database, lists 14,129 books and articles with occurrences of Darwin, Darwinism, or Darwinian in the […]
Debates in evolution: What if the tape of life were replayed? Would humans result?
Stephen Jay Gould, the great American paleontologist, liked to say – particularly in A Wonderful Life, that if the tape of evolution were replayed a million times, a species like ours would not necessarily evolve. He made this point in, and a debate rages to this day about whether he meant chance, as Daniel Dennett […]
Today at Design of Life: Channel your inner fish?
Tiktaalik, an early fossil fish with sturdy forefins, helps illustrate the difference between the approach of scientists who are convinced Darwinists and that of scientists who view the problems of evolution primarily in terms of information theory (intelligent design). The Darwinist says, There! – we have found a missing link, so now we KNOW! what happened […]
Canine Speciation in Bucksnort
Blame placed on discarded Mutation Paste. Details at TheBRITES.org
Guillermo Gonzalez: Is Earth an accident or a staging platform for exploration of the universe?
You’d think astronomers would be happy to sponsor the latter idea but then you must have been out of town when Guillermo Gonzalez’s story broke. Read Denyse O’Leary’s interview with Gonzalez here. Also, Gonzalez on intelligent design – both non-falsifiable and already falsified? Howzzat? Also: Defeat organized stupidity. Buy and read The Design of Life!
Excerpts from the Dennis Prager show: The central dogma in neuroscience? And at least one reason why it isn’t true.
Bill Dembski asked me to post some excerpts from this interview that Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard and I did with American radio host Dennis Prager, on the difference between the mind and the brain (as set out in our book The Spiritual Brain, Harper One, 2007). I finally got a chance to transcribe a bit […]
On the Origin of Species in 8 pages
HERE IS THE LINK A taste “INTRODUCTION When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle’, I began patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts, which seemed to throw light on the origin of species. I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed here […]
Darwinist Negative-Review Spam Campaign Backfires at Amazon
Last week, The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence In Biological Systems was in the 17,000-20,000 range at Amazon.com. Since the Darwinist-sponsored negative-review spam campaign (with “reviews” written mostly by people who obviously had not read the book), and as of this writing, the book is sitting at about 3,000, and is: #1 in […]
Atheists Lose Wager
Must greet everyone with “Merry Christmas” and wear Expelled T-Shirts. Details at TheBRITES.org.