Monthly Archives: September 2009
A Bogey Moment with PZ Myers
| September 30, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
It is interesting to see how evolutionists respond to failures of their theory. For all their talk of following the evidence and adjusting to new data, evolutionists find all kinds of ways to resist learning from their failures. Consider one of the major failures of evolution, its view of the very nature of biological change. […]
The Evolution of Human Skin Pigmentation
| September 29, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Eyes Rolling, Human evolution, Science |
Is this politically correct? Hmmm… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt
Karl Giberson Responds to William Dembski
| September 29, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion |
Karl Giberson has responded in a post at Beliefnet to Dr. Dembski’s previous post here at UD. The post that Dr. Dembski wrote was in response to another Beliefnet post written by Darrel Falk. What is left out of this triangle is that I had also posted a response to Darrel Falk’s post right after […]
Author Gil Dodgen Discusses His Loss of Faith in Adulthood
| September 28, 2009 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
I was raised an atheist, and was very devout as a kid. I studied astronomy, cosmology, and the origins of the universe. I remember saying to a scientist, “I don’t get it. I read a book that said there was an explosion known as the Big Bang, and that all the laws of physics were […]
Author Dan Brown Discusses His Loss of Faith as a Child
| September 28, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Education, Evolution, Religion |
Author Dan Brown is interviewed at Parade, and comments on his loss of faith as a kid: I was raised Episcopalian, and I was very religious as a kid. Then, in eighth or ninth grade, I studied astronomy, cosmology, and the origins of the universe. I remember saying to a minister, “I don’t get it. […]
The Speed of Thought
| September 28, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Computers are becoming faster and more powerful all the time and those improvements have been mainly due to better hardware. Future improvements, however, may well rely increasingly on better architecture and software. One reason why this seems likely is that the human brain, with its very different architecture, dramatically out performs computers in performing various […]
Origin of life theory: Complexity theorist Kauffman moving on
| September 28, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Origin Of Life |
Stuart Kauffman, a big name in complexity theory, is leaving the University of Calgary for the University of Vermont . He used to be at the Santa Fe Institute. I’m not clear on what he actually did at the University of Calgary, Canada, that attracted much attention but you can read more about him at […]
Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinists resort to whining when they are not popular (Also, this just in, water runs downhill)
| September 28, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Clearing out the Inbox, I find this item, “Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’” A British film about Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer (Anita Singh,The Daily Telegraph, 11 Sep 2009). Utter rubbish. Most likely, the […]
Turing machines, cells and why both are designed
| September 27, 2009 | Posted by niwrad under Biology, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
In a previous post (see here) I wrote: “necessary but not sufficient condition for a self-reproducing automaton is to be a computer”. Biological cells self-reproduce then for this reason work as computers. But “computer” is a very generic term (it means a device able to compute, calculate, process information, rules and instructions). Computer-science studies a […]
Lynn Margulis challenges neo-Darwinists and teaches somewhere now – but she has interesting ideas
| September 27, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Origin Of Life |
Here’s an intriguing article about origin of life researcher Lynn Margulis in the University of Wisconsin alumni news magazine, “Evolution Revolution” by Eric Goldscheider. We learn, among many other very interesting things, Symbiogenesis theory flies in the face of an accepted scientific dogma called neo-Darwinism, which holds that adaptations occur exclusively through random mutation, and […]
The merest rudiments
| September 27, 2009 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Excerpted from The Greatest Show on Earth Richard Dawkins 2009 “It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing. Creationists are deeply enamored of the fossil record because they have been taught that it […]
Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils
| September 26, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Darwinism, Evolution, Science |
Press release issued 25 September 2009 From the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists annual meeting at the University of Bristol, UK Chinese scientists today reveal the discovery of five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils which are significantly older than any previously reported. The new finds are indisputably older than Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird, at last […]
Chuck Colson Discusses Dr. Meyer’s book “Signature in the Cell” at Break Point
| September 26, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Education, Intelligent Design, Science |
Chuck Colson at Break Point discusses Dr. Stephen Meyer’s book Signature in the Cell: In recent years, there have been several important books about intelligent design that go to the debate about evolution and the origins of life. Bill Dembski’s The Design Inference was first. Then along came Darwin’s Black Box by Michael Behe, showing […]
Eugenics Impulse Alive and Well on SCOTUS
| September 25, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
As I have observed in these pages before, the United States Supreme Court has a very uneven record on the issue of eugenics. Indeed, one of the justices we lawyers are taught in law school to revere without question, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was an uber-Darwinist and philosophical materialist who also happened to be, not coincidentally, […]
Climate Nazi to Fellow Researcher: “No Data for You!”
| September 25, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
For those still clinging to the risible notion that scientists are above petty self-interest there is this. Note especially this response from a leading climate researcher to another researcher’s request for his raw data: “Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?” […]
Center for Inquiry’s BLASPHEMY CONTEST
| September 24, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Culture |
You’ve got to wonder what an organization that touts itself for critical thinking is thinking when it sponsors a BLASPHEMY CONTEST: Since Darwin is their god, it would be interesting to submit to this contest true statements about Darwin’s less than divine attributes.
The Original WEASEL(s) — Part II
| September 24, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
In an earlier post (go here), I relayed to UD readers two programs that had been emailed to me by someone named Oxfordensis. After careful scrutiny, my colleagues and I at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab concluded that these are by far the best candidates that we have to date for Dawkins’s original WEASEL program(s) (as […]
Uncommon Descent Contest Question 9 winner announcement:
| September 24, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
StephenB, at 50, won, for the appended comment in response to the question: Is accidental origin of life a doctrine that holds back science? The prize? A free copy of Steven Meyer’s Signature in the Cell (Harper One, 2009). (But StephenB must send me a working postal address at oleary@sympatico.ca) The accidental origin of life […]
Simon Conway Morris Down Under
| September 24, 2009 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
This week, Simon Conway Morris visited Australia. The following are extracts from a talk he gave in Sydney on Monday 21 Sept. They indicate how he sees ID and Dawkins. “I suspect, having re-read the Origin from cover to cover, that the Origin is as much to, not only attempt, but in fact to destroy creationism […]
Judge Jones Discussed at 3quarksdaily
| September 24, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
In light of Judge Jones coming to Southern Methodist University today and tomorrow, for what seems to be an unbalanced discussion of ID, I thought I would add some clarity to the affair with these remarks by Nick Smyth from the blog 3quarksdaily pertaining to Jones’s poor reasoning in his 2005 Kitzmiller decision as to […]
