Monthly Archives: April 2009
Richard Sternberg on “Junk” DNA
| April 29, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Sternberg needs to write a book debunking junk DNA. Shoddy Engineering or Intelligent Design? Case of the Mouse’s Eye By Richard Sternberg www.evolutionnews.org/2009/04/shoddy_engineering_or_intellig We often hear from Darwinians that the biological world is replete with examples of shoddy engineering, or, as they prefer to put it, bad design. One such case of really poor construction […]
Kenneth Miller: “Intelligent people can sometimes be wrong.”
| April 29, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
This from the SPECTATOR. Melanie Phillips is also quite the favorite at RichardDawkins.net. ——————————————————————————————— Creating an Insult to Intelligence By Melanie Phillips Wednesday, 29th April 2009 www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips…insult-to-intelligence Listening to the Today programme this morning, I was irritated once again by yet another misrepresentation of Intelligent Design as a form of Creationism. In an item on […]
Detecting Design Requires a Trained Eye
| April 29, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
I received this email from a colleague in London who used to have an office in the place where the Shard London Bridge (a massive skyscraper) is being built. His insight about design detection requiring a trained eye is good. His insight about Darwinists having purposely (by design?) trained their eyes not to see design […]
New ID blog in Portuguese
| April 29, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here is, I am told, a new ID blog in Portuguese . Paulo writes: I have been reading some Intelligent Design blogs, like Uncommon Descent, Telic Thoughts, etc, for a long time. I thought that portuguese speakers should have access to opinions and information about alternatives views to Darwinism too. So, in 2007, I created […]
Strange Herring Strikes Again
| April 28, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Over at Strange Herring, Anthony Sacramone gives us an hilarious send up of the latest evolutionary idiocy: I knew it! Researchers, looking into obesity, discovered that fatty foods not only send feelings of fullness to the brain but they also trigger a process that consolidates long term memories. It believed that this is an evolutionary […]
Message Theory – A Testable ID Alternative to Darwinism – Part 4
| April 27, 2009 | Posted by Walter ReMine under Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, The Design of Life |
Dobzhansky got it backwards: The unity of life at the biochemical level is evidence for Message Theory, and against evolution.
How Darwin worship helps animal extinction
| April 27, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
In Clever Critters: 8 Best Non-Human Tool Users, by Brandon Keim (Wired Science, January 16, 2009), we are introduced to best known examples of animal tool use. The article begins with the requisite Darwin worship, of course: Much more likely remains to be found: until Jane Goodall watched chimpanzees fishing for termites with sticks, scientists […]
Survival of the Sickest, Why We Need Disease
| April 27, 2009 | Posted by scordova under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!” This is a phrase a software engineer will use to jokingly confess his software has a defect. When Sharon Moalem wrote the NY Times Bestseller, Survival of the Sickest: Why We Need Disease, he probably did not intend to make a joking confession of flaws in Darwin’s theory, […]
Can You Say “Ad Hominem,” “Politicization,” and “Wishful Speculation”? — Dawkins addresses American Atheists 09
| April 26, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
I had meant to post this sooner, but had too much on my plate: YouTube Source
Emergence Redux
| April 26, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In a very thoughtful essay that deserves its own post, vjtorley writes: As someone with a background in philosophy, I’d like to make a few brief comments on the issues raised [in the Materialist Poofery” post]: Regarding reduction, emergence and supervenience: these philosophical terms have multiple definitions in the literature. One place where I might […]
Morning coffee! A snippet from Salvo!
| April 26, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
A magazine I recommend to the kind readers of Uncommon Descent is Salvo. Yes, I write for it, and here are some of my recent contributions that are available on line. Livin’ on a Prayer The “nothing but” approach to describing humans The Truth Hurts:Following the Evidence to Career Oblivion But many skilled writers serve […]
Public Service: Visualizing a Trillion
| April 25, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Trillions are much in the news lately regarding the economy. Such large numbers also come up in the small probability arguments inherent in design inferences (small probabilities are reciprocals of large numbers). As a public service, I’m herewith presenting some visuals for dealing with large numbers: ——————————————————— ——————————————————— ——————————————————— ——————————————————— ——————————————————— ——————————————————— ——————————————————— ———————————————————
My Final Post at UD
| April 25, 2009 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Last evening I posted the following, and within a short period of time the Darwinbots descended upon it, challenging my expertise in two highly sophisticated areas of computational science, AI and FEA, fields in which I have the goods to demonstrate that I know what I am talking about. One commenter even asserted that the […]
Materialist Poofery
| April 25, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
From time to time we see materialists raising the “poof objection” against ID. The poof objection goes something like this: An ID theorist claims that a given organic system (the bacterial flagellum perhaps) is irreducibly complex or that it displays functional complex specified information. In a sneering and condescending tone the materialist dismisses the claim, […]
FAQ4 is Open for Comment
| April 24, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
4. ID does not make scientifically fruitful predictions. This claim is simply false. To cite just one example, the non-functionality of “junk DNA” was predicted by Susumu Ohno (1972), Richard Dawkins (1976), Crick and Orgel (1980), Pagel and Johnstone (1992), and Ken Miller (1994), based on evolutionary presuppositions. In contrast, on teleological grounds, Michael Denton […]
Neuroscience: Skeptic Mag’s Review of The Spiritual Brain
| April 24, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Doug Mesner writes asking me to respond to a review of The Spiritual Brain which he published in Skeptic Magazine, and he has now helpfully made the review available on line. He writes, The book distresses me in that I see in it an early Creationist assault on the Cognitive Sciences, and the formation of […]
Materialist Concede that Holocaust was Permitted if Materialism is True
| April 23, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
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In my “Bleak Conclusions” post I quoted kairosfocus who was in turn quoting Hawthorne for the following: Assume: (1) That atheistic naturalism is true. (2) One can’t infer an “ought” from an “is.” If these two things are true, nothing exists from which we can infer any moral principle. If moral principles cannot be inferred, […]
“A Spoonful of Jesus Helps Darwin Go Down” by Jerry Coyne
| April 23, 2009 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Education, Intelligent Design, Religion |
In “A Spoonful of Jesus Helps Darwin Go Down”, Coyne criticizes the NCSE: The pro-religion stance of the NCSE is offensive and unnecessary
The FANTOM designer
| April 22, 2009 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Nature FANTOM studies networks in cells “An international consortium has released an analysis of unprecedented detail showing the genes and proteins that guide an immature cell to its final identity. The models show that a complex network of transcription factors is responsible for a cell’s differentiation, with no one ‘master regulator’ in control. “It’s like […]
Bleak Conclusions
| April 21, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In an earlier post I lamented the apparent extinction of what I called “Nietzsche atheists,” by which I meant atheists with the courage and honesty to accept the bleak conclusions logically compelled by their premises. Some of our atheist friends seemed to not know what bleak conclusions I was referring to. Here is a comment […]
