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, Read More…
Month: February 2012
Neanderthals used red ochre pigment 250,000 years ago
Just like homo sapiens, or modern humans
Assumptions about Neanderthals “must be revised” on the basis of “severely degraded DNA”?
“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
“… 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
“Frank’s conflation of human and animal behaviour leads directly to his implicit denigration of politics.”
From The Best Schools: When Fishtown’s do-gooders just stopped doing good
When looking at a society’s strengths, sociologists … often discuss “social capital.” What they mean is, who would care if you were mugged?
From The Best Schools: When Joe Money moved out of Fishtown
And, for all that Eddy griped, he was on shift at Joe’s Fishtown plant the day it closed.
ID’s threat to science: “Dark Ages II begins to fall” on top of us?
For a brief moment there, we wondered if the new Dark Ages was beginning to fall, but …
Gallup Poll of 676,000 shows the most religious Americans have highest well-being
“The statistically significant relationship between religiousness and wellbeing holds up after controlling for numerous demographic variables.”
Richard Dawkins would now rather be called an agnostic than an atheist?
But do most agnostics want Dawkins speaking for them? Look what he was saying three years ago …
New ID-friendly book released in Germany
Authors include Reinhard Junker, a prominent German ID-friendly biologist.
He said it: Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli was a staunch critic of neo-Darwinism
” … they use the word ‘chance’ … in its application to very rare single events more or less synonymous with the old word ‘miracle’.”
Planets not tethered to suns could ferry life around galaxy?
Sunless planets were in search of a headline until this thesis came along.
Do Materialists Believe Rape is Wrong?
I have a question for our materialist friends. Let’s imagine a group of chimpanzees. Say one of the male chimps approaches one of the female chimps and makes chimp signals that he wants to have sexual relations with her, but for whatever reason she’s not interested and refuses. Is it morally wrong for the male Read More…
Could it work? Probabilities and Engineering Feasibility Studies
Our engineering department often gets feasibility-study contracts. The client has an idea, but wants to know if he should pursue further investment and research into a proposed solution to an engineering problem. Our team goes to work. We use all our resources and experience to evaluate the suggested engineering solution. Our team recommends three possible Read More…