Monthly Archives: February 2008
Melkikh’s Improbability of Darwinism and deterministic evolution model
| February 29, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Darwinism, Evolution |
Is is said that in the USA one can criticize politics but not evolution, while in Russia one can criticize evolution but not politics. The Russian author Alexey Melkikh provides the most spectacular improbability of Darwinian evolution that I have seen. He then proposes a mode of evolution without mutation. As some readers have asked […]
Grape Expectations and Interpreting Evidence
| February 29, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science |
From The Boston Globe: Can expectations influence how we judge the evidence? SCIENTISTS AT CALTECH and Stanford recently published the results of a peculiar wine tasting. They provided people with cabernet sauvignons at various price points, with bottles ranging from $5 to $90. Although the tasters were told that all the wines were different, the […]
Is God Really Good?
| February 29, 2008 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
The latest issue of the on-line journal Anti-Matters published by the Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education in Pondicherry, India, includes reviews of Wells and Dembski’s “The Design of Life” and Mike Gene’s “The Design Matrix”, as well as my article “Is God Really Good?”. How is this question relevant to ID? The article makes […]
Finch Biography Now Available
| February 29, 2008 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
Read the review and insightful excerpts about me at TheBRITES.org.
Francis Collins speaks at Stanford
| February 29, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
“5th Feb 2008 Dr Francis Collins discussed his views on science, faith, and the ease with which the two can be reconciled through a rejection of extremes, and an embrace of “harmony in the middle”. Collins emphasized that science does not provide us with the right instruments to prove the existence of God because God […]
How Evolution will be Taught Someday
| February 28, 2008 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
In any debate, it is always good strategy to acknowledge your opponent’s strongest points up front, effectively taking those points off the table. The evolutionist’s strongest points are the fact that science has been so successful to date in finding “natural” (unintelligent) causes in other areas of science, and the fact that the development of […]
Today at The Mindful Hack
| February 26, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
North America undergoing religious revolution? No way. Atheism is not growing significantly. Anti-depressant are definitely NOT the death of the soul, as Tom Wolfe thought Templeton Foundation offers L2 million pounds to find a non-spiritual source of belief in God
Wanted: More Greenhouse Gases
| February 26, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
Global average temperature in the past 12 months plummeted precipitously erasing all the global warming in the previous century. Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling Well now, this proves I do make mistakes. My mistake was thinking it would take longer than this for me to be proven right.
Global Cooling Sets In; Al Gore Apologizes for Trying to Send Everyone Into A Tizzy Over Global Warming
| February 26, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Global Warming, Off Topic |
The second part of the headline is false. The first part is true. See the article in the Daily Tech here. Excerpt: All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously. Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the results […]
Marshall Institute critiques Climate Science
| February 26, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Global Warming, Off Topic |
The George C. Marshal Institute‘s 3rd edition of Climate Issues and Questions is a refreshing effort to provide a dispassionate evaluation of 29 major questions regarding the science of “climate change”, and to separate those from political agendas. Their method and effort is well worth considering in light of the current debate over origins of […]
ID in my Daughter’s Science Class
| February 25, 2008 | Posted by dacook under Biology |
I recently assisted my daughter with a most interesting project for her 8th grade science class. The assignment was to learn about a Biome, write a report on it, then design an animal to live in it. The students were to provide a description of the characteristics of their animal which suited it to life […]
Interview with Timothy Keller
| February 25, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
The Reason for God by Timothy Keller is No. 18 on the NYT bestsellers list. Over at First Things Anthony Sacramone has a great interview with Keller that includes this on the evolution debate: In The Reason for God, you make a very brief argument for the validity of evolution within a limited sphere. It […]
Today at The Design of Life blog
| February 24, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Why do scientists sometimes ignore warnings that theories are wrong? Even great scientists can get it all wrong, and it is interesting to see how and when they do.
Isn’t It Nice, When Things “Just Work”?
| February 23, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Here.
“Another two-fingered salute to the opponents of evolution”
| February 23, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
New Scientist February 16, 2008 Dan Jones Pg. 40-43 heavily edited. Full text here. “William Paley, who argued that the natural world is full of designed complexity which must have a creator, would have considered the bacterial flagellum an excellent example. The flagellum, with its intricate arrangement of interconnecting parts, looks no less designed than […]
“My Failed Simulation” taken literally at scienceblogs
| February 23, 2008 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Humor, Intelligent Design |
When I first wrote “My Failed Simulation” (now on the discovery.org main page here and at Human Events) it really never even occurred to me that anyone would think I had actually tried such a simulation, or that I was claiming to have tried it. I thought it was pretty obvious that it was just […]
Finch and Knuther win 2006 Best Paper Award for “Socio-Chortelist Evolution of Humor: Emergent Jocularity from the Process of Natural Selection”
| February 23, 2008 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
Finch and Knuther each received an award check for $15,000 plus a gold plated medallion for their evolution of “a man walks into a bar” jokes. Read their paper at TheBRITES.org.
Today at the Overwhelming Evidence blog
| February 22, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Just plain big? How do animals get that way? Why the exploding palm tree explodes – or why it doesn’t Frog from hell? Well, that’s how Nature News is telling it. Apollyon, check your e-mail. The frog is loose again.
Intelligent Design: Did Biological Life Require It?
| February 22, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
February 19, 2008 K.D. Kalinsky (Note from Denyse: An ID theorist asked me to publish this essay on detecting design in nature. It is exactly as the scientist gave it to me except that – I have linked the sections for easier Web handling – all the notes have been moved to the end. – […]
Why isn’t ALL life extinct?
| February 22, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
In another thread talking about engineers’ perspectives on the machinery of life the topic of entropy came up. Engineers have to deal with entropy in all their designs and the very best efforts at dealing with it only serve to slow it down and never stop it. So one of my big questions isn’t why […]
