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. Read More…
Month: September 2009
The Evolution of Human Skin Pigmentation
Is this politically correct? Hmmm… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt
Karl Giberson Responds to William Dembski
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 Read More…
Author Gil Dodgen Discusses His Loss of Faith in Adulthood
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 Read More…
Author Dan Brown Discusses His Loss of Faith as a Child
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. Read More…
The Speed of Thought
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 Read More…
Origin of life theory: Complexity theorist Kauffman moving on
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 Read More…
Darwinism and popular culture: Darwinists resort to whining when they are not popular (Also, this just in, water runs downhill)
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 Read More…
Turing machines, cells and why both are designed
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 Read More…
Lynn Margulis challenges neo-Darwinists and teaches somewhere now – but she has interesting ideas
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 Read More…
The merest rudiments
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 Read More…
Origin of birds confirmed by exceptional new dinosaur fossils
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 Read More…
Chuck Colson Discusses Dr. Meyer’s book “Signature in the Cell” at Break Point
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 Read More…
Eugenics Impulse Alive and Well on SCOTUS
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, Read More…
Climate Nazi to Fellow Researcher: “No Data for You!”
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?” Read More…