Monthly Archives: June 2009
Discovery Commissions Zogby Poll — Design Trumps Darwin
| June 30, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
[[Discovery Press Release:]] In Darwin Anniversary Year, New Zogby Poll Reveals Majority Support for Intelligent Design — Doubts about Darwin Continue to Mount Seattle – Just a few months before the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, a newly released Zogby poll shows that the American public overwhelmingly rejects Darwinian theory in […]
“Violations of EPA’s Commitment to Transparency and Scientific Honesty”
| June 30, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Science |
The suppression of Alan Carlin’s report arguing against anthropogenic global warming serves as a warning to anyone who would facilely contend that science is self-correcting. Science by itself is not self-correcting. It only becomes self-correcting when scientists and outsiders refuse to let dogmatists who pretend to scientific objectivity monopolize the discussion. Science is not about […]
“Making a Monkey out of Darwin,” by Patrick Buchanan
| June 30, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism |
It’s nice to see people like Pat Buchanan feeling more at ease about going after Darwin. In citing Eugene Windchy’s THE END OF DARWINISM, Buchanan writes: Darwin … lied in “The Origin of Species” about believing in a Creator. By 1859, he was a confirmed agnostic and so admitted in his posthumous autobiography, which was […]
We Can Now Obtain Erroneous Results Faster
| June 30, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
A new method for computing evolutionary trees may revolutionize evolutionary biology. That’s good because evolutionary biology needs some revolutionizing. So far its fundamental predictions have consistently turned out to be false. Indeed, at evolutionary biology’s very core, the idea of an evolutionary tree is problematic given the data, and even some evolutionists are suggesting the […]
N. T. Wright on Epicurus, Deism, and Darwin
| June 30, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Uncommon Descent Contest winner 5: Why middle-aged men have shiny scalps
| June 29, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Biology, Intelligent Design |
Before I announce the winner, I should note that Harper One San Francisco has announced that 5 hardback copies of both Steve Meyer’s Signature of the Cell, ( 2009) and Beauregard and O’Leary’s The Spiritual Brain (2007 ) are available free to contest winners. Like, win and add them to your library for free. Okay, now to […]
God and Science Redux: Lawrence Krauss
| June 29, 2009 | Posted by DonaldM under Atheism, Biology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science |
A friend alerted me to this piece by Lawrence Krauss from the Wall Street Journal. Krauss writes: “J.B.S. Haldane, an evolutionary biologist and a founder of population genetics, understood that science is by necessity an atheistic discipline. As Haldane so aptly described it, one cannot proceed with the process of scientific discovery if one assumes […]
The Man Behind the Curtain: Evolutionists React to The Voyage
| June 29, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Nothing exposes the failure of a dogma more than the propaganda it hides behind. Pathetic ideas cannot stand the light of day. They run from open inquiry and call everyone a liar. Evolution is pathetic–not because it is a religiously motivated idea with little scientific support, but because of its deceitful cover up. It makes […]
The man who knows everything: My MercatorNet column
| June 27, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
At the Canadian Science Writers’ Association convention in Sudbury, Ontario, our Sunday dinner speaker was American theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University, who presented sample clips from famous sci-fi films. And a whole lot more. Would you be astonished to learn that the films portray implausible or impossible physics? No? Filmmakers value audience […]
American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting at Baylor This Summer
| June 26, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
This just in from Walter Bradley, President of the ASA: Dear Friends, I wanted to bring to your attention a unique opportunity this summer. The annual meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation will be held at Baylor University July 31-August 3. The ASA is the world’s largest organization of evangelical Christians who work in science […]
Sober Rebukes Evolution’s Religion (Sometimes)
| June 26, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
The religion in evolution can be subtle and it can fool even sophisticated thinkers. Elliott Sober, for example, has recognized that religious premises are used by evolutionists. He says they don’t work because they rely on gratuitous assumptions. In his book Evidence and Evolution he writes the following: Continue reading here.
B.A.R.B: Birds Are Really…..Birds!
| June 26, 2009 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
The summer of 2000 promised to be very exciting for ornithologists and paleontologists alike as they flew into Beijing for the fifth quadrennial meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution (Ref 1). The setting was most appropriate given the richness of fossils that have been unearthed in Chinese soil. The central theme of […]
Evolution’s Repeat Performances
| June 24, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Would you believe that the blind, unguided process of evolution repeats itself? Would you believe that evolution somehow repeats striking patterns of change? Evolutionists do. Continue reading here.
Video: Signature in the Cell
| June 23, 2009 | Posted by Jack Cole under Intelligent Design |
Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses his new book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design.
Response to search engine query: What is the Colliding Universes blog about?
| June 23, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
I was asked to define my littlest blog for a “deep” search engine group, Feedmil, and replied as follows: Colliding Universes takes a critical look at cosmology, especially its many unexplained assumptions. Here’s one: Earth is not special. There must be many planets that host life forms. Now, what if we find 3000 exoplanets and none host […]
Books on the history of science and religion
| June 23, 2009 | Posted by Steno under Intelligent Design |
Professor Peter Harrison, the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, has some very useful research on the history of science and religion that may be of interest to intelligent design researchers. Both books reveal important information about the religious foundations of modern science in terms of the desire of members […]
Evolution’s Religion Revealed
| June 23, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Did you know evolution is a religious theory? If this seems strange then read on. In this post I will explain one way that evolution is contingent on religious reasoning. Such reasoning is a constant thread running through the evolution genre, but it can be subtle. If you are familiar with the evolution literature you […]
A Novel with a Little ID
| June 22, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Intelligent Design |
Having trouble talking about ID with your wife or girlfriend? Well, here is a perfect way to start them off. This story about love, betrayal, and death will surely get them interested. Here is an excerpt: “Well,” began David, “I’ve been doing a lot of reading on intelligent design theory. Have you heard or read […]
Uncommon Descent Contest 4: Can we save physics by dumping the Copernican principle? – Winner announced
| June 22, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
The question is here. It looks at “Does Dark Energy Really Exist? Or does Earth occupy a very unusual place in the universe?” by physicist Timothy Clifton and astrophysicist Pedro G. Ferreira, who argue just that: If we give up the Copernican principle, we do not need dark energy to explain the composition of the […]
Boo-Hoo: Documentary Makers Didn’t Tell Us They Think Darwinism Is a Crock
| June 22, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Science |
John Lynch whines that “noted historians”* weren’t properly informed that a documentary for which they were interviewed (The Voyage That Shook the World) would take an anti-Darwinist line. Lynch is outraged: the documentary makers are guilty of “lies” and “deception.” Would a charge of fraud hold up in court? I suspect the documentary makers simply […]
