Monthly Archives: October 2011
Steve Jobs’s Final Words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by GilDodgen under Spirituality |
Food for thought.
Astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez on habitable planets: “Our universe is a small target indeed.”
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Perhaps, the less we know, the easier it is to imagine “THEY are out there” – without the undue burden of details.
Why America might pull through the demographic collapse
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Off Topic |
It is mainly religious people who raise children, and more women in America are religious.
This has got to be the stupidest anti-ID article ever written …
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
But we must hope Blumenthal writes way, way more of this stuff.
Surprise, surprise: Children like to work together but chimps don’t
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Animal minds, News |
Compare this with recent claims that orangutans have culture. The reason orangutans don‘t have culture is precisely stuff like this.
Design inference: And you thought the genetic code was difficult to crack …
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
“But the white whale of the code-breaking world is the Voynich manuscript”
Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Biogeographical Distribution
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under Intelligent Design |
We have now reached the fourth part of my series on Wikipedia and the evidence for common descent. In previous entries, I discussed Wikipedia’s arguments for common descent based on comparative physiology / biochemistry, comparative anatomy, and paleontology. Now I am going to address the arguments from biogeographical distribution. Biogeography is essentially the study of […]
He said it: “[t]he universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference” — professor Richard Dawkins’ cynical manipulation of our moral sensibilities
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, Ethics, Media |
In recent days, UD contributor Dr V J Torley has rightly taken atheism advocate, professor Richard Dawkins to task for cynical manipulation of our moral sensibilities in his public accusations against Christian philosopher-theologian, Dr William Lane Craig. And that, patently to avoid having to account through a public debate for his many acid fulminations against […]
He said it: On origin of life, “we now have an inkling of the magnitude of the problem”
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
Still do.
An interesting way of visualizing cell design
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, News |
“The algorithms organize the intertwined 3D surface-contour data into simplified orthogonal cell abstractions and the components can be sorted to emphasize particular comparisons with proximity. “
J. W. Wartick on Fuz Rana’s “The Cell’s Design”
| October 31, 2011 | Posted by News under Design inference, News |
“The Cell’s Design is an extremely difficult read, but it does not leave readers who are not scientists to flounder.”
James Barham on atheists indulging the fantasy of murdering “bad” Christians
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Thing is, Dexter’s a poisonous type of fantasy. Real police socios don’t conveniently happen to victimize only Bad or Dangerous People. They victimize people. Full stop.
Christian Darwinists getting purged from Calvin College?
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, News |
Vocal Darwin supporter Steve Matheson has left too.
Human evolution: Us n’ the dog – a furry tale
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
The DNA evidence remained controversial for years, even as most major studies placed the genetic separation of wolf and dog at earlier dates than those favored by archaeologists. Hard proof was slow to appear.
D. S. Wilson, leading Darwinist: America leads the world in denial of evolution, also popular media supposedly cares less than ever about truth
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
By the way, is it actually true that “truth counts for less and less in the popular media.” Isn’t that just toff rot? Where some of us live, you can actually say “honor killing” legally now.
When Is Murder “Good”?
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
I present the following proposition for consideration: “Every human being has infinite value and therefore one can never justify killing a human being on the ground that killing that human results in a net overall increase in pleasure even for the human in question.” What reasoning could possibly warrant believing this proposition to be true? Let’s […]
Marcelo Gleiser on “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
How does Gleiser know that aliens “weird as they might be, still follow the laws of nature”
It’s hard to understand why anyone takes Steven Pinker seriously.
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Mind, News |
Why does anyone think that, in general, violence in the world is decreasing? What about the twentieth century would lead an alert observer to think so?
Religion, spirituality associated with better health outcomes
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Religion |
Most religious organizations incorporate the fact of suffering into their explanation of life, and plan for it.
Studies of religion: “This is God speaking: Put that cookie down”
| October 30, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Religion |
“And if you don’t, don’t blame Me if you end up weighing two hundred lbs.”
