Monthly Archives: July 2011
Casey Luskin tries to explain why science texts should be about science, not about confirming secularists’ deepest beliefs, Darwinian magic, etc.
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, science education |
Here. Rube shouts in:
Drivers’ brain power produces much quicker reaction times – but remember, the mind doesn’t exist
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Mind |
At the Journal of Neural Engineering (Eurekalert, 28-Jul-2011), we are advised to “Put the brakes on using your brain power”: German researchers have used drivers’ brain signals, for the first time, to assist in braking, providing much quicker reaction times and a potential solution to the thousands of car accidents that are caused by human […]
Let us now turn back to the Beard, and perhaps he will forgive us our persistent unbelief
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Darwinism, Religion |
Photographer-philosopher Laszlo Bencze offers us this prayer, for spiritual Darwinists, Christian or otherwise, reflecting on one of their recent conferences: We believe in Darwin, the father all-sovereign, explainer of all things visible and invisible, and in one Thomas Henry Huxley, the bull dog of Darwin, begotten from the substance of Darwin. We believe in his […]
Cool vid: Priest explains why atheists hang out on the CNN beliefs blog
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Spirituality, Video |
Here’s Fr. Barron. Yeah, we wondered too.
Cool kid vid on the nature of God
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Religion, Science, Video |
Here. The Nature of God // Zonderkidz from ColdWater Media on Vimeo.
Why wasn’t that polar bear scientist a full-time Darwinist writing about human evolution? He’d be way safer.
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Climate change, Peer review |
Why wasn’t that polar bear scientist a full-time Darwinist writing about human evolution? His speculations would be way safer.
Numbers point to something beyond themselves … but what?
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Mathematics |
Numbers point to something beyond themselves … but what?
High quality fossil of ancient sea saurian unearthed over coffee
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution |
The find includes the outline of soft body tissue, which might allow a good guess as to its shape, but they’ve yet to find the skull.
Superstition today greater than in Middle Ages?
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism |
The Ottawa Citizen’s David Warren thinks so: Re “Most superstitions go back to the Middle Ages,” he writes, … Not true. Most go back either to the beginning of time, or to the beginning of modernity. The Middle Ages were, to those with a mild acquaintance with them, centuries remarkably free of “common superstitions.” Unless, of course, you […]
Trying to put a couple of things together here, re Christian evolutionists and Michael Dowd
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism |
Recently, Caroline Crocker offered us AITSE’s bunk detector for Rev. Michel Dowd and wife Connie Barlow’s recipe for “evolutionizing” your life for fun and profit: This course in life management looks too good to be true. And it is. Married couple Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow promise you a “joy-filled life” and “lighthearted strength.” All […]
If space aliens exist, they are straws to clutch at
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology |
In “Existence: Are we alone in the universe?” (New Scientist, 25 July, 2011), Valerie Jamieson offers explanations for why space aliens just do not show: But that doesn’t mean ET isn’t there. It just might not know we’re here. The only evidence of our existence that reaches beyond the solar system are radio signals and […]
There is a bill for Alan Guth’s free lunch after all
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology |
In “Existence: Why is there a universe?” (New Scientist, 26 July 2011), Amanda Gefter asks, Might something similar account for the origin of the universe itself? Quite plausibly, says Wilczek. “There is no barrier between nothing and a rich universe full of matter,” he says. Perhaps the big bang was just nothingness doing what comes […]
“Am I a zombie?” Better question: What those dudes over at New Scientist been smokin’?
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology |
In all seriousness, Michael Brooks asks , “Existence: Am I a zombie?” (New Scientist , 25 July 2011): It is not so long ago that computers became powerful enough to let us create alternative worlds. We have countless games and simulations that are, effectively, worlds within our world. As technology improves, these simulated worlds will […]
If cancers can be a newly evolved species, something is wrong with the concept of “newly evolved.”
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution |
If cancers can be a newly evolved species, something is wrong with the concept of “newly evolved.”
Human evolution, the Trooth: In this episode, an early industrial revolution was the closing curtain for Neanderthals
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution |
Human evolution, the Trooth: In this episode, an early industrial revolution was the closing curtain for Neanderthals
Bryan College prof defends 98% chimp-human DNA identity
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Epigenetics, Genetics |
Bryan College prof defends 98% chimp-human DNA identity
New research: People differ in their genetic makeup more in big ways than small ones
| July 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Genetics |
The question isn’t whether Darwinism can “explain” this, but whether Darwinism is even relevant any more. It may have been relevant in the days of the Central Dogma, but … in the story about bacterial “spite” or long range planning among horses, Darwinism is only explaining itself – in increasingly bizarre ways.
David Tyler on rewriting the textbooks on Archaeopteryx – that dinobird, no longer First Bird, downgraded to dinosaur
| July 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution |
These days, even creationists don’t care what they think as much as the tenured Darwin bores do.
Remember “Drowning polar bears? Or drowning in images? Update
| July 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Peer review |
If it’s really a criminal investigation, apologies will not settle the matter.
The selfish gene: Darwinism is so self-referential now that it sheds light only on itself.
| July 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Darwinism |
Darwinism is so self-referential now that it sheds light only on itself.
