From Nature: Classic behavioural studies flawed Nobel prizewinner took short cuts to show that the way gulls feed is instinctive. John Whitfield One of the most famous experiments in biology isn’t the solid piece of work it’s usually portrayed as, say Dutch researchers who have replicated the study. Instead, it’s more like an anecdote that […]
Month: March 2009
Evolutionists’ careers built on plagiarism?
A recent article in Cracked, discussing plagiarism, used the careers of Richard Owen and H.G. Wells – both important evolutionists – as 40% of “Five Great Men who Built Their Careers on Plagiarism.” Read it and see what you think.
Science fiction finding religion?
What make you all of this, in City Journal?: How Science Fiction Found Religion Benjamin A. Plotinsky Once overtly political, the genre increasingly employs Christian allegory. Winter 2009 There is a young man, different from other young men. Ancient prophecies foretell his coming, and he performs miraculous feats. Eventually, confronted by his enemies, he must […]
‘Analyze and Evaluate’ Are the New Code Words for ‘Creationism’
By now most of you are probably aware of the news from Texas and the new science standards there. Apparently, the new standards don’t sit well with Dr. Eugenie Scott and her friends at the NCSE, (National Center for Saving Evolution). “The final vote was a triumph of ideology and politics over science,” says Dr. […]
Outsider Meddling — Skeptics Need Not Apply (or, Just Have Faith)
Someone by the name of skeech is cluttering up UD with impervious sophistry and wasting a lot of our time. His/her latest thesis is that “according to biologists…” there is a “credible possibility that small incremental changes could have developed massive increases in biological information in a short time — followed by stasis.” So, skeech […]
The Darwinian Mechanism as the Grammar-Checker of Biology
After giving his famous METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL computer analogy to evolution in his book The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins remarks, “Life isn’t like that. Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distant target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection.” I would dispute that there are no targets. […]
Dogs more like humans than chimpanzees are?
Dogs, not chimps can help us understand human behaviour? Well, this moved recently at msnbc.com: Dogs (not chimps) most like humans Man’s best friend serves as model for understanding human social behavior By Jennifer Viegas Discovery Channel updated 11:58 a.m. ET, Thurs., March. 26, 2009 Chimpanzees share many of our genes, but dogs have lived […]
Probability’s Nature and Nature’s Probability–Don Johnson
Don Johnson (PhD in Computer Science from Univ. Minnesota, another PhD in Chemistry from Michigan State) has just published a pro-ID book, “Probability’s Nature and Nature’s Probability: A Call to Scientific Integrity” amazon.com link here . My question to readers: how many scientists have to reject Darwinism before there is a “scientific controversy”?
Canadian science minister vs. the puff dino suits: A story with, um, legs?
I see where Nature News published (2009 03 25) an item about Canadian science minister Gary Goodyear vs. the puff dino suits in downtown Toronto (young researchers with nothing better to do (?), claiming that he doesn’t believe in evolution – like it was some kind of religious experience he never had, but was supposed […]
Virtual Cell Videos
Hey everyone, check out these amazing animations of cellular processes at http://vcell.ndsu.nodak.edu/animations/
Cook the primeval soup for billions of years and Voila!
Check out this video. It’s amazing the confidence Alan Boss has that the primeval soup will generate life. Interesting that he sees the soup needing to simmer for billions of years for life to emerge. It seems to have emerged much faster on the Earth.
Harvesting – An Alternative to Natural Selection
Natural selection is posited as the only mechanism to lead to differential survival among individuals of varying fitness. However, if selection pressures cause mortality to occur in individuals who would soon be dead anyway, then natural selection is not really operating. The hypothesis of the Harvesting Effect in epidemiology leads to this conclusion. I think […]
News from Texas
It appears we have some good news in Texas: Big Win in Texas as State Now Leads Nation in Requiring Critical Analysis of Evolution in High School Science Classes Robert Crowther In a huge victory for those who favor teaching the scientific evidence for and against evolution, Texas today moved to the head of the […]
Co-option, Berra’s Blunder, and Speculation Presented as Fact
In Bill Dembski’s thread, No Major Conceptual Leaps, I posted a comment about the evidential, logical, and probabilistic vacuity of the Darwinian co-option hypothesis. (I use the word hypothesis with reservation. A hypothesis in a domain such as this should at least be based on a minimal, mathematical probabilistic analysis.) In response to my comment, […]
We Have No Excuse- A Scientific Case for Relating Life to Mind (PART II)
By Robert Deyes And John Calvert PART II: THE ULTIMATE RELATIONSHIP – ANALYZING PATTERNS THAT COMPRISE LIFE Many scientific disciplines that seek to determine the relationship of an existing pattern to past events analyze them as we analyzed the letters on the drawing board (See PART I). Coroners seek to know the cause of […]