If you got a bit of birthday money, Ben Wiker’s 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: and 5 Others That Didn’t Help would be a good use of your dimes. Wiker, senior fellow at St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is also the author of Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists. Wiker makes clear Read More…
Month: February 2009
FAQ2 Is Open For Comment
FAQ1 has been revised in response to comments. The floor is now open on FAQ2 2] No Real Scientists Take Intelligent Design Seriously Yes, they do. For simple instance, in telecommunications work, we start by distinguishing the intelligent signal from the naturally occurring noise that tends to garble it. Indeed, simply by reading this web Read More…
ID in Action: Two Reports from the Field
Some of you may find interesting a couple of articles in the latest issue of Spontaneous Generations, a peer-reviewed journal founded and run by graduate students at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Toronto. One article documents the activities of a philosopher of science in the American South Read More…
15 Coolest Cases of Biomimicry
brainz.org/15-coolest-cases-biomimicry
BBC’s Tree of Life – Review of Attenborough’s programme
Andrew Halloway offers his review of David Attenborough’s recent BBC1 prime time documentary ‘Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life’ highlighting the out of date material and poor reasoning. Andrew comments ‘I’m astonished that the BBC still included this [material about the Tree of Life], and what’s more made it the title of the programme, Read More…
Update on Darwin and the University of Oklahoma
Today there was a great article in the OU Daily about the controversy surrounding the Darwin 2009 Project at OU. Not only were all parties fairly represented (at least as best as I could tell), but they even got the definition of ID right!
Self-Assembling NanoMachine: a film about flagellar biosynthesis
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Durston Cont’d
Kirk Durston‘s Thoughts on Intelligent Design In this thread, I would like to lay out my own thinking regarding a method to detect or identify examples of intelligent design. I then would like to unpack my thinking in a slow, meticulous (pedantic perhaps?) way and, if we can get that far, apply it to Read More…
51% of UK population sceptical of evolution – Theos report
According to a Theos report, highlighted in the UK’s Telegraph, “More than half of the public believe that the theory of evolution cannot explain the full complexity of life on Earth, and a “designer” must have lent a hand, the findings suggest.” Rather amusingly, Richard Dawkins thinks it acceptable to insult half the population expressing “dismay at the Read More…
Judge Jones gets multiple honorary degrees, Ben Stein has his withdrawn
Judge Jones, whose distinction prior to the Dover case was running the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, now has multiple honorary doctorates for rendering his decision, which he cribbed from the ACLU’s Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Ben Stein, who is an acclaimed actor, author, and economist, on the other hand, has just Read More…
FAQ 1 is Open For Comment
1] ID is “not science” On the contrary, as Dr William Dembski, a leading Intelligent Design researcher, has aptly defined: “Intelligent Design is . . . . a scientific investigation into how patterns exhibited by finite arrangements of matter can signify intelligence.” In turn, science at its best is an unfettered (but ethically and intellectually Read More…
But it isn’t science …
When critics of ID try to define it out of existence by calling it religion or pseudoscience, it’s worth remembering that to this day scientists and philosophers have yet to settle on what is science and what isn’t. Critics who try to use such “demarcation” arguments against ID invariably end up excluding not only ID Read More…
If intelligent design doesn’t succeed…
… it’s because we didn’t take advantage of the incredible resources available to us:
Strange Herring Calls It
Anthony Sacramone on how NDE works. BTW, Strange Herring is one of my daily stops. Fun and wise, a rare combination.