I’ve written before about Baylor tenure controversies. A Christian research university would be a great contribution. But the temptation to sell out to tax-funded materialism is everywhere. Who is surprised when yet another institution is pitching headfirst? Read The Dying of the Light for a scholar’s take on the subject. Now some really ominous news Read More…
Month: March 2008
Jonathan Wells reviews Francis Collins
Here’s the conclusion of Jonathan Wells’s review of Francis Collins’s THE LANGUAGE OF GOD: Darwin of the gaps Recall Collins’s principal objection to ID: “ID is a ‘God of the gaps’ theory, inserting a supposition of the need for supernatural intervention in places that its proponents claim science cannot explain… But those theories have a Read More…
Science Bloggers: Hook, line, and sinker
I’ve spent several hours reading all the reactions to the Age of the Machine video (see my previous post) and checking out where it’s been posted. Except for Uncommon Descent it’s all on Science Blogger websites and the reaction is fascinating. Almost without exception it’s being called brilliant in artistic execution. There’s just about an Read More…
Machine Video
I can hardly believe this was posted on Panda’s Thumb.
Fritz your wits about your gender with … the Gender Genie!
Men and women communicate differently, an irritated commenter informed me over at Mindful Hack. Science has settled the issue! Well, I am not sure that the matter is simple enough to be “settled” by science. And, as it happens, the Gender Genie has just popped out of its lamp or castaway bottle or whatever today’s Read More…
Paul Myers the Serial Gatecrasher
Well, if anyone still had any doubts about Myers this should eliminate them. He admits his aim is “misbehavior”. If it weren’t for misbehavior like that locks and keys would never have been invented. Go to Myers’ blog to read more: I always aim to misbehave
Expelled at Biola — Ben Stein Receives the Phillip Johnson Award
Last evening I attended a big Expelled event at Biola University in La Mirada, California. Presenters included Ben Stein, Walt Ruloff, Caroline Crocker, Guillermo Gonzalez, Stephen Meyer, and Biola faculty. Expelled executive producer Walt Ruloff began with a short presentation. He talked about his background in computer technology and how he founded a logistics-optimization software Read More…
PZ Myers sneaks into press teleconference … !
I was in a press conference this afternoon for the Expelled documentary (about scientists who are persecuted for questioning Darwinism and other materialist evolution theories). Ben Stein, the film’s lead, producer Mark Mathis, and others were there. Mathis confirmed that he kicked PZ Myers out of the film to make a point (Myers endorses the destruction Read More…
Tuatara, the fastest (and perhaps slowest) evolving animal
Yet another missed prediction made by the chance & necessity theory of evolution. The Tuatara is one of the slowest evolving animals we know of – stable in form for tens of millions of years after it separated from early dinosaurs. The neo-Darwinian theory of evolution predicted that its rate of molecular (DNA) evolution would Read More…
Fitna vs Expelled – Is Islamofascism similar to Darwinian fascism?
Are there parallels between the effects of “Big Science” Darwinism severe job discrimination against non-Darwinists as shown in Expelled, and recent terrorism by Jihadists? The very controversial film Fitna offers a view on radical Islam and the Qur’an by by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV). It was just released Read More…
Dawkins in Austin
Last week was spring break at Southwestern Seminary where I teach. The seminary is located in Ft. Worth, about 200 miles north of Austin. As it is, in the middle of the break (last Wednesday), Richard Dawkins was going to be speaking in Austin. I therefore challenged my class to go listen to him and Read More…
PZ Myers is really a nice guy?
Someone whose comment I rejected wrote to tell me that PZ Myers is really a nice guy in person. I don’t care, okay. I am entitled to take him at his word as provided in his posts … And I intend to – unless he informs me personally that it is all hogwash, in which Read More…
Clinton Dawkins: Guilty as Charged
In my previous post where it was confirmed that Paul “PZ” Myers fooled the hosts of a private screening of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” by RSVPing to an invitation he never received I reserved judgement on Richard Dawkins, giving Dawkins the benefit of doubt that he may have been duped by Myers into thinking he Read More…
Expelled Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere
EXPELLED Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere SANTA FE, N.M.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Something amazing happened yesterday. The controversy around Premise Media’s upcoming movie Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed became the hottest topic in the blogosphere. According to BlogPulse, a service of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, the issue held the number one slot throughout the day on Monday, March 24th Read More…
Framing science: Finding a frame to fit materialism?
At Overwhelming Evidence, today, I reflect on the comments of Matthew Nisbet at the Framing Science blog. His comments are a more interesting – and far more significant – illustration of what is wrong with science today than the uproar over Myers’s ejection from the Expelled screening. In his post, Nisbet pleads with Dawkins and Read More…