Maybe the newsletter staff will hereafter be harassed to Darwin pieties in order to prove their submission, and it will be interesting to see how that turns out.
Month: December 2011
Merry Christmas back in fashion?
A tiny minority of state nannies, social engineers, and pressure groups specialize in taking offense, and make their living from it. And they are offended by us unwashed hordes generally, so ….
Evolutionist: You’re Misrepresenting Natural Selection
How could the most complex designs in the universe arise all by themselves? How could biology’s myriad wonders be fueled by random events such as mutations? Read more
“It is our ability to imagine being in the other person’s shoes that is the key to the human difference.”
“Monkeys do feel the distress of others but have no good grasp of what’s going on with them.”
The Darwinist is in the business of ridding the universe of “purpose” and “meaning” and “value.”
“That is what all the hullabaloo over evolution is really about.”
MicroRNA Exchange Between Cells Found to be Key Evolutionary Innovation
We recently reported the thought-provoking findings that our genes are not only regulated by our own microRNA—those small snippets of transcribed DNA which were often considered to be useless junk—they are also regulated by the microRNA in the food we eat. In other words, food not only contains carbohydrates, proteins, fat, minerals, vitamins and so forth, it Read More…
Why might “being made in the image of God” matter for human dignity?
Why might that matter for public policy?Look what happens when you take it away.
Steve Fuller’s Christmas lecture, at Swedish Twitter University: “How to think like God”
“It’s pretty difficult to rationalize science unless we imagine ourselves as over time, albeit in fits and starts, getting closer to the mind of this hypothesized God,”
Popcorn: watching kinesin in action, as we digest that Christmas turkey and pudding . . .
Sometimes, seeing is believing. Here is a nice, short summary of the kinesin microtubule highway “walking truck” protein in action: [youtube lLxlBB9ZBj4] This vid gives a bit of context: [youtube 8RULvE9rw6Y] Especially notice the role played by Brownian motion, and that played by ATP. So, post turkey and pudding vid no 3: ATP Synthase in Read More…
Optical Metamaterials and the Hercules Beetle
You may recall that objects have particular colors because, at the molecular level, light rays at certain frequencies (corresponding to certain colors) are reflected while at other frequencies the light is absorbed. In other words, an object’s color has to do with its chemistry. But, as David Tyler points out here, coloration can also arise from Read More…
Talking Evolution With Evolutionists
One day while walking to the life science library I was stopped by a cultist who wanted me to join. Having spoken with cultists before, I was able to explain his problems to him. The cult’s beliefs entailed several obvious contradictions, its leaders had well-documented ulterior motives, and so forth. But the fellow was undeterred. Read More…
Reb Moshe Averick, skeptic of nonsense marketed as science, mixes it up again with Jerry “Why Evolution Is True” Coyne
“I, on the other hand, confidently assert that the gaping chasm between non-life and life is so wide, that it is absurd to think that it could have been crossed by means of an unguided, naturalistic process.”
Cosmology: Why the future belongs to intelligent design
“We are living in an accidental universe. We are living in a universe uncalculable by science.” Are we?
An explanation need not make any sense these days as long as it supports materialism.
Here’s the blurb for yet another stab at a materialist explanation of consciousness, demonstrating that fact:
ID Foundations, 13: Of bird necks and beaks, robots, micro-level black swan events, inductive turkeys & the design inference, the vNSR and OOL (with hints on economic transformation)
Over the past few days, I have been reflecting a bit on carrying design theory-relevant thought onwards to issues tied to education and economic transformation. In so doing, I found myself looking at a micro-level, personal black swan event, as I watched student robots picking and placing little plastic widgets much like . . . Read More…