Monthly Archives: March 2008
Climate facts to warm to
| March 22, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
The Austrailian published a transcript of an interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril. Excerpt: Duffy: “Can you […]
Rush Limbaugh Reviews “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” on Talk Radio
| March 22, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Listen to it here.
But – why does PZ Myers NEED to see the Expelled film?
| March 22, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
A friend tells me there is quite the kadiddle going on over at Darwinist Web sites on account of PZ Myers getting the bum’s rush out of the recent Expelled screening. And he wasn”t let in even though Richard Dawkins, also sneaking around, was let in and introduced. What, I wonder, did Dawkins say? Hi, I’m […]
Discovery News Release on Richard Dawkins Crashing EXPELLED Screening
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Expelled |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACT: ROBERT CROWTHER DISCOVERY INSTITUTE (206) 292-0401 X107 ROB@DISCOVERY.ORG Richard Dawkins, World’s Most Famous Darwinist, Stoops to Gate-crashing Expelled by Bruce Chapman, www.evolutionnews.org Like many films im pre-release, Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is being selectively screened around the country to develop a buzz. There is a growing fear by […]
Could global warming have an upper bound?
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Global Warming, Science |
Can science ever stop being skeptical of the dominant theory? Ferenc Miskolczi may have discovered an upper bound to Greenhouse Effect. He found a “simplifying” assumption of an optically infinite atmospheric thickness in the original climate models. Modeling an optically finite atmospheric thickness clamped the “runaway greenhouse” projections. Could similar “simplifying” assumptions be discovered in […]
Scaffolding or signaling – which comes first?
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Intelligent Design |
Darwinians objecting to Michael Behe’s Irreducible Complexity appeal to indirect “scaffolding” or Roman Arch routes that support the assembly and are later discarded. Now research shows cancer is caused by mutations in the CARD11 gene that forms a cytoplasmic scaffolding docking site for a signaling molecule. If mutations in genes forming known scaffolding lead to […]
Dr. Berlinski’s book tour
| March 20, 2008 | Posted by scordova under Atheism |
Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated best seller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a far larger movement – one that now includes much of the scientific community. “If science stands opposed […]
Intelligent Design research published in Nature
| March 20, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
The following is an edited extract from a Nature paper. It is an example of real ID research. Notice that the designers only used evolutionary techniques to very slightly tweak the enzymes scaffold structure that had been designed with “borrowed components” from existing enzymes tacked together. The novel active site was completely intelligently designed. doi:10.1038/nature06879 Kemp elimination catalysts by computational […]
PSSI Takes the Debate to Spain, Darwinists React With Lies
| March 19, 2008 | Posted by dacook under Darwinism, Education |
Rich Akin, CPA and CEO of Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity (PSSI), has reported to its membership the completion of a successful five-city educational event, titled What Darwin Didn’t Know, in Spain this past January. A week prior to the first event the national newspaper El País published a full page article that portrayed […]
Today at the Design of Life blog – Mustangs vs. breed horses
| March 19, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
There has been a Darwinian vs. human-directed evolution experiment running in North America for centuries. It is the horse. That is, the mustang vs. humanly directed horse breeds. What did natural selection do? What did intelligent design (specified complexity) do? For more, go here.
The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat
| March 19, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
Josh Willis of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2003 completed the deployment of 3000 oceanic robots that dive 1 kilometer deep and record the water temperature. The unexpected result is that the robots have found that the ocean cooled slightly in the past 4 years. Willis also says that the oceans contain almost ten times […]
ID is winning the language war
| March 19, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Language matters. And my recent search on the terms “post-Darwinist” and “post-Darwinian” suggests that getting over Darwin may be catching on. Check the figures. I would not have named my personal ID news blog the Post-Darwinist in April 2005 if the use of the term then had been anything like what it is now. Someone […]
Pat Robertson interviews Ben Stein about EXPELLED
| March 18, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Expelled, Intelligent Design |
Check out this CBN segment that features Ben Stein, David Berlinski and yours truly: GO HERE.
The BRITES Lobbies the Motion Picture Association to Give an NC-17 Rating to Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
| March 18, 2008 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
The BRITES today launched their crusade to lobby the Motion Picture Association to rate the documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed NC-17. Dr. Richard Knuther railed against Expelled‘s practice of reductio ad Hitlerum, questioned the morality of the producers of the documentary, and called the movie thought porn. More at TheBRITES.org.
John Scotus Eriugena – a 9th century advocate of “intelligent design”
| March 17, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Biography, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion |
While cleric Michael Heller disparages Intelligent Design, Chuck Colson observes: “John Scotus Eriugena is considered perhaps the first proponent of “intelligent design.” See: Learning from the Irish, Chuck Colson “Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things,” he wrote, “and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal […]
Michael Heller, this year’s Templeton Prize winner, on ID
| March 17, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Michael (Michal) Heller is a Polish cosmologist and Catholic priest and recipient of this year’s Templeton Prize. Here he is over at FT bashing ID. Adherents of the so-called intelligent design ideology commit a grave theological error. They claim that scientific theories that ascribe a great role to chance and random events in the evolutionary […]
Does citing PCID justify censorship?
| March 16, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Intelligent Design |
A web page on “Einstein’s razor” at Wikipedia and ResearchID cited: * Q. T. Jackson (2005) describes: “a corollary from Occam’s Razor, which I shall call herein ”Einstein’s Razor.” The notion that a theory should be as simple as possible (but no simpler). . . Einstein’s Razor brings forward the following notion: ”even when a […]
Will Promotion of (Anti)Religion Continue to be Permitted in U.S. High Schools?
| March 15, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Atheism, Darwinism, Education |
In my neighborhood in Southern California, a high school student has filed suit against a history professor who openly and consistently disparages Christianity in the classroom. Note that this teacher is “faculty adviser to the Free Thinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship student club.” Question #1: Why is no discussion of scientific challenges to Darwinism permitted […]
Jonathan Wells’s New World Encyclopedia article on ID
| March 15, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
GO HERE: newworldencyclopedia.org/….
Today at the Design of Life blog …
| March 15, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Why SETI hasn’t found any space aliens yet: Excerpt: Gonzalez and fellow astronomer Hugh Ross have pointed out, Over the last four centuries the CP [Copernican Principle] has evolved from a simple claim that the Earth is not located at the center of the solar system to an expansive philosophical doctrine that the Earth, and […]
