Monthly Archives: September 2011
A bedtime story for non-Darwinists
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
Inconveniently, there were only two parachutes.
DNA Dynamism
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design |
Just in at PhysOrg.com. Non-dividing brain cells quickly undergo epigenetic changes. “It was mind-boggling to see that so many methylation sites — thousands of sites — had changed in status as a result of brain activity,” Song says. “We used to think that the brain’s epigenetic DNA methylation landscape was as stable as mountains and […]
This is the only way some people can understand the design of life
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
One can smell the corruption when the only way to talk about what really happens is “flaws.
Strange new features spotted on Mercury
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
From Rachel Kaufman, National Geographic News (September 29, 2011): The planet Mercury is dotted with holes that appear to be unlike any other landform yet seen in the solar system, new pictures show. And just think, that little fryball is the last place you’d expect the unexpected, too …
The gay squid makes the front page of the New York Times. And the faster-than-light neutrinos do not. Which means what?
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Media, News |
That’s part of the reason that the Times’ circulation has been tanking for years.
Where Are the Neutral Genomes with these Mutations?
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design |
As readers of UD know, Elizabeth Liddle is convinced that in any population there are neutral versions of the genome that have every needed variation an organism must have. Change the environment, and, lo and behold, the organism changes. But what has happened here? Let’s quote the article: H5N1 evolved in poultry in east Asia […]
Hybridization as a Challenge to Common Descent?
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design |
Here’s an article from New Scientist that will be open for the next seven days to registered viewers. It’s about the “metamorphosis” of species from larval to adult stages, and brings in the views of Donald Williamson. Here’s a link to his 2006 paper, and the entire abstract (it’s worth it!): Examples of animal development […]
Mysterious Denisovans were just us? In furs?
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
Beware of people who preach that common sense is a bad thing. Usually, they are promoting NON sense in its place.
A riposte, sort of, to that Doonesbury cartoon …
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
Here. A riposte to that Doonesbury cartoon. Yeah, over a year ago. But now that Einstein is down in flames (?), we decided to stop thinking that it even matters. Follow UD News at Twitter!
The worldview of Darwinian Evolution
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by David Tyler under Intelligent Design |
The essay stimulating this blog emerged from the Darwin Bicentennial year, when surveys of “educated lay people” in Switzerland revealed that only 20% had any clarity of thinking about Darwin’s theory of evolution. About half explained it in a circular way, another 20% implied some form of Lamarckism and the remaining 10% talked about evolution […]
Biologos warming up to young earth creationism? Or Darwinists just don’t get intellectual freedom?
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Listening to someone other than Jerry Coyne would be fun, even for Jerry Coyne.
Imagine a universe where Einstein could be wrong, …
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Physics |
Here, we still hold out hope that the faster-than-light neutrinos are an honest mistake. But the glory of real science is precisely that Einstein could be wrong.
People watch: Marxist philosopher starts to “get” religion
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
Philosophers in office too easily confuse the Life of Virtue with what the law can enforce.
The jaw-dropping brilliance of evolutionary psychology: Darwin explains wife-beating
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
Darwinism need only be proclaimed to be believed and embraced by adoring popular culture. Making sense is irrevelant.
Bad science by Dr. Victor Stenger, arguing in the cause of atheism
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
(Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN. Courtesy of Adam Nieman and Wikipedia.) Dr. Victor Stenger is a physicist who worked for 30 years with neutrinos until his retirement in 2000. He is also an outspoken New Atheist and a leading critic of Intelligent Design. In a recent Huffington Post article (No cause to dispute […]
What a scientist should be
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Science |
One could listen to this person without enforced interest.
Materialist atheism stays in charge – how do doubters survive?
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Culture, Media, News |
Can you imagine as typical mainstream news medium questioning Darwin? They can question Einstein, not Darwin. And doesn’t that tell you loads about the current debacle?
From the Animals ‘r just like us desk: Fish uses tools?
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Intelligent Design, News |
Smashing something against a rock is enterprising, but does not constitute using a tool.
One Long Bluff: A Review of Richard Dawkins’ “The Greatest Show on Earth”
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under Darwinism, Evolution |
Richard Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth hopes to convey and document some of the evidence which compels him to embrace a Darwinian perspective on origins. Dawkins is also author of The God Delusion and probably today’s best known Darwinian apologist. Dawkins, in his 2009 book, The Greatest Show on Earth, lives up to his […]
History desk: Earliest known statement of the problem of evil, as an argument for atheism
| September 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, News |
And it’s still a big issue today, amazingly enough, in the discussion of design in nature.
