Monthly Archives: March 2008
Baylor … going gently into that good night?
| March 31, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Jonathan Wells reviews Francis Collins
| March 31, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Science Bloggers: Hook, line, and sinker
| March 30, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Machine Video
| March 29, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
I can hardly believe this was posted on Panda’s Thumb.
Fritz your wits about your gender with … the Gender Genie!
| March 29, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Paul Myers the Serial Gatecrasher
| March 29, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
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
| March 28, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Expelled |
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 […]
PZ Myers sneaks into press teleconference … !
| March 28, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Tuatara, the fastest (and perhaps slowest) evolving animal
| March 28, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Fitna vs Expelled – Is Islamofascism similar to Darwinian fascism?
| March 27, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Darwinism, Expelled, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
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 […]
Dawkins in Austin
| March 26, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Darwinism |
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 […]
PZ Myers is really a nice guy?
| March 26, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Clinton Dawkins: Guilty as Charged
| March 26, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Expelled Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere
| March 25, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
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 […]
Framing science: Finding a frame to fit materialism?
| March 24, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
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 […]
Dawkins, Myers, and what R.S.V.P. means
| March 24, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
R.S.V.P. is an abbreviation for the French “répondez s’il vous plaît” which means “please respond” and traditionally is appended on invitations so that the host knows who and how many guests to expect. Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers are running around saying they weren’t “gate crashers” at a pre-screening of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”. But […]
Is Intelligent Design Required by Biological Life?
| March 24, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
by K.D. Kalinsky “Either biological life required intelligent design or it did not. As with most problems in science, it is difficult to prove one option or another with absolute certainty. Instead, options can be evaluated against each other in an attempt to estimate which option is more likely. Even then, the fact that one […]
Why the PZ Myers Affair is Really, Really Bad?
| March 23, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
An on line appeal for RD and PZ to make sacrifices in the interest of winning the “war on science”. Will they take the advice? “Richard and PZ, when it comes to Expelled, it’s time to let other people be the messengers for science. This is not about censoring your ideas and positions, but rather […]
Today at the Post-Darwinist: New stuff on the Expelled screening plus more
| March 23, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Why was an American Darwin fan kicked out of the screening of Expelled? Templeton winner trashes design? The Big Bang as a creationist theory At last, a useful encyclopedia entry on intelligent design theory
Water Power
| March 22, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Off Topic, Science |
I read somewhere about a guy in Florida some years ago who was winning races in an offshore speed boat powered by hydrogen/oxygen by water electrolyzed on demand. He used a conventional piston engine modified slightly to run on hydrogen/oxygen (which is one of the most efficient fuels you can get). Normally there’s no way […]
