Monthly Archives: November 2011
ID is dead already? Didn’t you know? – Darwinist Jason Rosenhouse
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Hmmm. If that’s true, why have we lived through three server upgrades at UD in the last five years?
The Magic of Reality and Will Provine’s Honesty
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
In some ways I have great respect for Will Provine, who is honest enough to declare the inevitable philosophical consequences of atheistic materialism (no free will, no dogs or gods worth having, no foundation for ethics, no ultimate purpose or meaning in anything, and eventually drop dead and go straight to eternal nihilistic oblivion). Richard […]
First Gene: Functional sequence complexity (FSC) found in biopolymers as well as human languages and computer code
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Biophysics, Intelligent Design, News |
Clearly, FSC can be found in human languages and carefully designed computer code, but the measure we propose in this paper reveals that it is also found in biopolymers.
First Things magazine covers atheists who are rescuing design
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, News |
Here’s the problem: Why be an atheist if you live in a multiverse where everything is true somewhere. Atheism is true, and so is every kind of God or god. And, your point is what, exactly?
Vuk Nikolic’s protein synthesis vid
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Video |
The word we keep hearing is Wow!
“By eight months, babies have developed nuanced views of reciprocity and can conduct these complex social evaluations” – evolutionary psychologist
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, News |
What clearly happened here was that the previous evo psych research claims weren’t all hanging together, and this new fix supposedly rescues them.
Steve Pinker – actually – thinks that most people believe evolutionary psychology but don’t see it as a force for good
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Evolutionary psychology, News |
Nonsense. The common stereotype of evolutionary psychology is that it promotes rubbish. And guess what?
Here’s another of Darwin’s original bulldogs – the theistic Darwinist Charles Kingsley
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Why was he “eminently successful”? Because the fact that the atheist Darwinists are usually prominent and the Christian Darwinists are usually negligible in the field is – for some reason – seldom made explicit by the latter.
ID Foundations, 12: “Additionality,” Paley’s self-replicating watch, the von Neumann Self-Replicator [vNSR] and the inference to design
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under ID Foundations |
The Wikipedia hit-piece on Intelligent Design (NWE’s introductory article is much fairer and better informed) leads with an illustration of a watch; an invidious allusion to William Paley’s famous parable of stumbling over a stone in a field vs. finding a watch in the same field, that appears in Ch I of his 1802 [- […]
From the Darwinist Blogosphere, Stephen Meyer’s Trip to London Elicits a Typical Reaction
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan M under Intelligent Design |
As we have already reported, Discovery Institute’s Stephen Meyer recently paid a visit to London to present and defend the thesis of Signature in the Cell at a dinner party attended by scientists, philosophers, politicians and other men and women of influence. His visit included a radio debate against theistic evolutionist Keith Fox, which you […]
Philip Kitcher allows us to know the limits of permissible dissent from consensus science
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
“I attempt to show that there are serious problems about dissent, problems that arise today with respect to some of the most urgent issues … “
And you thought that the human evolution folk were fresh out of ideas? Now chimps flinging poop help explain our origins
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Human evolution, News |
“If you imagine that throwing started off as left hemisphere-dominant, before the emergence of speech, then speech and language would have co-opted that side of the brain.”
Intelligence studies too focused on apes, ravens are smart in the same ways
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Intelligent Design, News |
Why are chimpanzees supposed to be so intelligent when species of birds often rival them in cognitive ability?
Pop Quiz: Who Believes and Promotes the Fixity of Species Belief?
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Historians will point to the eighteenth century Swedish super-scientist Carl von Linne, or Linnaeus, as a key figure in the history of thought who promoted the religious belief that once created, all species remain fixed throughout history. Read more
If there is a moral landscape, is Sam Harris’s book a map?
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Science |
“… science should one day be able to make very precise claims about which of our behaviors and uses of attention are morally good, which are neutral, and which are worth abandoning.”
“Zero skepticism” and “outrageous hype,” not evidence, mark recent campaign to make multiverse respectable – mathematician
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
Strange are the contortions of the pop science mags, struggling to keep alive an idea nature does not need.
Research Sheds Light on How the Brain Responds to Stimulus and Learns
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
It’s no surprise that the brain is profoundly complex. We discussed here, here and here that the brain contains hundreds of billions of nerve cells which are connected via hundreds of trillions of synapses. That a single synapse is like a microprocessor (although far more complex of course), with both memory-storage and information-processing functions and […]
Researchers hope butterfly genome sequence explains migration – but their approach raises a critical question
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Biology, Intelligent Design, News |
It will be most interesting if the mechanism indeed turns out to be fundamentally the same for butterflies, birds, and turtles. What would such a finding imply?
Both genetics-first and metabolism-first origin of life models” strain scientific credibility.”
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
“Life is an intersection of the physical sciences of chemistry and physics and the nonphysical formalism of information science. Each domain must be investigated using that domain’s principles.”
“We know scientists are lying when they always produce on time results that conform to the establishment theory”
| November 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy, Science |
“There are major differences between real science and bureaucratic science (BS). Real science involves living with the prospect of failure. In BS, failure is not allowed.”
