Monthly Archives: February 2012
“Noble cause” corruption: It’s okay to lie, even in science … ?
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Ethics, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
“t’s a term that originated in law-enforcement to describe a dirty cop who plants evidence on a suspect because he “really knows” that the guy is guilty … ,”
Horizontal gene transfer: Gene from bacteria lets beetle feed only on coffee beans
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by News under horizontal gene transfer, News |
Non-Darwinian evolution: “Cases of ecologically significant HGT in eukaryotes are starting to pile up, …”
What sandblasted scorpions can teach aircraft engineers
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Biomimicry, News |
If nature is unintelligently designed, how come it has so much to teach us?
Baby Steps to Science
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design |
I am a big fan of amateur involvement in science. As such, I am starting a new series called “Baby Steps to Science,” published at Classical Conversations. The goal is to provide simple things that people can do to get their feet wet in scientific thought. The first article in the series, Counting, is up […]
BioLogos claims not to be Darwinist after all … and it’s not April 1 either.
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Atheism, Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Big change in the wind? “BioLogos does not subscribe to Darwinism, but Dr. Dembski has chosen this title and we will respond to it.”
Best Schools: John Gray on the Cult of Unbelief
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Religion, Science |
“It is not even clear he is really a friend of traditional theistic religion. But he is even more opposed to the religious pretensions of science.”
Bill Dembski on the problem of good
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy |
“Hitchens is not the only atheist who needed to explain away Mother Teresa’s acts of charity. E. O. Wilson has done the same.”
The First Gene: “Without formal control, no life would exist.”
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
“Life is an intersection of the physical sciences of chemistry and physics and the nonphysical formalism of information science.”
Michael Behe on the theory of constructive neutral evolution
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
“The first thing to note about the paper is that it contains absolutely no calculations to support the feasibility of the model. This is inexcusable. …”
The real Charles Darwin: Not what you heard on Darwin TV …
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
“When he worked out his first theory he was ignorant of most branches of natural history with the exception of geology and geographic distribution subjects which he had learned while on the Beagle voyage. “
Stephen Barr’s Own Private Idaho
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Back in the early 90’s a movie came out with the peculiar title “My Own Private Idaho.” The movie has nothing to do with my topic, but I’ve always been amused by the notion of a “private Idaho.” In a comment to my previous post (Barr v. Arrington), Deuce captures perfectly the problem with Stephen […]
This year’s wishful thinking?: “Constructive neutral evolution” can create complex processes like splicing and RNA editing …
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
‘”constructive neutral evolution’ that invokes biased variation, epistatic interactions, and excess capacities to account for a complex series of steps giving rise to novel structures or operations.”
New Video: Evolution is a Natural Process Running Backward
| February 28, 2012 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design, Video |
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embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt After 10 years of trying, it seemed to me that getting scientists to understand something this simple was almost impossible, so this video, created with the expertise of my brother Kirk, was designed for “general audiences;” they do seem to understand it. But this time, I have been pleasantly surprised […]
Consensus science fails because we are not in the fourth grade any more
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
By the time people have graduated from high school, they have usually noted that the winners and losers are not necessarily who the consensus said.
When humans reached Australia, it wasn’t far away …
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
” … the long-isolated Andaman islanders have genes that diverged from other Asians about 60,000 years ago fits this notion of sudden seaside peopling.”
Barr v. Arrington
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Over at the First Things blog Stephen Barr said that there is no way to compute the probabilities of evolution. I disagreed and pointed him to Dembski’s and Marks’ work at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab. Barr responded by citing a 2003 article by Wesley Elsberry and said the critique of Dembski’s work was, if valid, […]
Neanderthals used red ochre pigment 250,000 years ago
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
Just like homo sapiens, or modern humans
Assumptions about Neanderthals “must be revised” on the basis of “severely degraded DNA”?
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
“New findings from an international team of researchers show that most Neanderthals in Europe died off around 50,000 years ago.”
Trying to make a machine into a human isn’t really new, it turns out
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Mind, News |
“… paradoxically enough, this passion had less to do with philosophy than with blasphemy, hypochondria, and a cheerful and Frankensteinian hubris.”
The Darwin Economy: The frightening mind of the technocrat
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Culture, Darwinism, News |
“Frank’s conflation of human and animal behaviour leads directly to his implicit denigration of politics.”
