“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD” Dr. Caroline Crocker Named First Executive Director of the IDEA Center Dr. Caroline Crocker Named First Executive Director of the IDEA Center – January 15, 2008 Dr. Caroline Crocker, a biologist featured in the upcoming documentary film Expelled, has been hired as the Executive Director Read More…
Month: January 2008
Snow Festival or Snow Storm?
“The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both Fahrenheit and Celsius, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the Read More…
Guess the Author
And don’t use Google, you cheaters! That’s not guessing. Both passages — arguments about possible modes of evolutionary change — were written by the same scientist. He is offering his own view, not expounding that of others. Sample 1: In real life, major evolutionary innovations perhaps had to wait for radical mutational ‘inventions’ that fundamentally Read More…
Join the Expelled
Click here to sign yourself up as a volunteer to help promote the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Not sure? Watch the movie trailer below and then decide if you should help get the message out. P.S. This YouTube trailer is a little dated. The movie is slated for April release in all major movie Read More…
Run-up to EXPELLED: Ben Stein Hosts Stanford Debate — Hitchens vs. Richards
DEBATE: Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design Sunday, January 27th at 4pm PST, Stanford University WHAT: Stanford University will play host to a debate entitled Atheism vs. Theism & the Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design. This debate is being organized by student groups at Stanford: IDEA Club at Stanford,The Stanford Review Read More…
Materialist assumption hits bottom of dumpster
The mind does not exist – or anyway it cannot cause anything to happen, right? Well, it would be very convenient for materialists if that could be shown to be true. Here, commenter Magnan writes, in response to my recent post on dealing with Darwinist hate, Such a deep dynamic could explain, for instance, why parapsychology Read More…
The Design of Life: Popular science media solve the origin of life – every couple of weeks …
Excerpt: When a scrap of evidence supports any one of the competing theories of the origin of life, doubts about that theory itself are often not discussed in the article. That practice distorts the overall picture. To see why, suppose for example that the police are trying to determine which of three suspects stole a Read More…
Neo-Darwinism Impeding Research… Again
Remember the dark days of vestigal organs? You know, back when there was a list of 180 vestigal organs? Or remember the days of junk DNA – when repetitive DNA, large regions of non-protein-coding DNA, and all sorts of mobile DNA were assumed to be non-functional simply because the investigators had assumed Darwinism rather than Read More…
The old order changes, … amid a storm of abuse!
I did a local radio show this morning, on which perceptive host Robert White asked me how I cope with hostility in connection with The Spiritual Brain and other books – trolls, votebots, idle anonymous threats, and such. I think I rather surprised him by pointing out that I didn’t really care much. Essentially, I Read More…
Dembski’s Suing Me!
Now it’s personal. More.
What Does T. cistoides Have To Do With Darwin’s Finches?
Because of a prediction, a very strong prediction, I made on another thread, I’ve had reason to look into just what has been happening to Darwin’s finches way off on the Galapagos Islands. Here is a paper published last year in Science Magazine by the Grants, experts in Darwin’s finches. I looked at their paper, Read More…
Why Evolution is Smarter
Here is a gem for you: The idea of nanotechnology is founded in the premise that it will be possible to construct machines with atomic scale precision (Feynman, 1961; Drexler, 1981; Drexler, 1986). Biology provides many examples that this is possible; we “merely” need to learn what has been achieved by evolution and copy Read More…
Mathematicians are trained to value simplicity
It is frustrating for me to see that even most ID proponents are ready to concede a Darwinian explanation for any complex structure which does not seem to be irreducibly complex. If someone could show, for example, that the bacterial flagellum could have been constructed through many gradual improvements, would I find a Darwinian explanation Read More…
The Cardinal Dresses Darwin Up for God: Compatibilist Strategies – Do They Work?
On July 7, 2005 Cardinal Christoph Schönborn wrote an article Finding Design in Nature that seemed to level serious criticism at Darwinism and neo-Darwinism. “Now at the beginning of the 21st century, faced with scientific claims like neo-Darwinism and the multiverse hypothesis in cosmology invented to avoid the overwhelming evidence for purpose and design found in modern science,” Read More…