Monthly Archives: March 2012
So Many Christians, So Few Lions
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by GilDodgen under Atheism |
This from the compassionate, inclusive, tolerant, atheist community. Get yours while there’s still some left!
Lucy ( afarensis) back in news: Maybe relatives had ape feet
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
This [finding] is fascinating, and makes the evolution of this defining behaviour not a single, linear evolutionary event, but a far more complex affair,” Harcourt-Smith says.
Exoplanets found that are nearly 13 billion years old?
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Exoplanets, News |
Obviously, this makes no sense in terms of conventionally accepted timelines for the universe.
Here’s What That New UCSF Paper Says in Plain English (And Why Evolution Needs Another Do-Over)
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
If you had a four-letter alphabet and all words were three letters, then how many words would there be? The answer is 4 times 4 times 4, or 4-cubed, or 4^3, or 64. That’s how the DNA code works. Our DNA has four molecular “letters” and to create a protein the letters are taken three […]
Recent BioLogos meeting in New York: Enthusiastic despite being a minority
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, News |
One wonders about the wisdom of revealing the fact that 60 attendees did not want their names published without permission (as opposed to just not mentioning the matter).
Meanwhile, from the Marquis de Sade, …
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, News |
He (1740-1814) is still working on the discipline he founded, sadism, and regrets he doesn’t have time for our contest …
Contest: Who invented the phrase intelligent design?
| March 31, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Science |
Charles Darwin uses the term in an 1861 letter, in response to something John Herschel wrote.
Give Credit Where Credit is Due: This Powerful Prediction by Darwin Came True (And We Have it on Film)
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
As evolutionists will tell you, it may seem like all the evidence is against evolution, but when you put them all together, and keep on repeating to yourself that evolution is true, then it makes sense. Well here’s one incredible example of just that. As insiders know, there were some, little known, bizarre aspects of […]
Friday night fun: “Dawkins Dodge”
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Humor, News |
A “Wild West” rendition of Dawkins’ flight from the Craig/Dawkins debate. Some of it is verbatim.
It’s all these “could haves” and “would haves” that are the fundamental problem for origin of life studies.
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
How about a ten year moratorium on the terms? Thoughts?
Tens of billions of planets in the galaxy might have water?
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial life, News |
It may be a bit too soon to start selling real estate. They found nine super-Earths in a survey of 102 stars. But so far, super-Earths have been disappointing.
Have conservatives really lost their faith in science?
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Science |
Actually, almost no one loses their faith in science when it is evidence-based and useful. Who turns down cancer treatments that work?
Thirty-year-old book more true now than ever: Today’s irrationalism is a product of naturalism
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
“R. F. Baum, whose work has been applauded by thinkers as diverse as Sir Karl Popper and the late P. A. Sorokin, provides critical assessments of Darwinism, Marxism, and Freudianism in the light of empirical fact and logic.”
No wonder many black people don’t like Darwin’s theory
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
In other words, it was mostly the better informed people who realized what Darwinism is and where it was headed.
The Biologic Institute has a new Web design
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News |
Motto is nice too: “The more we learn about life, the more clearly it reveals design.”
Last Days to Submit Abstract for Engineering and Metaphysics Conference
| March 30, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design |
The Engineering and Metaphysics conference is fast approaching, and abstracts are due this weekend! If you plan on submitting an abstract, but need more time, send an email to submissions@eandm2012.com . We’ve already got several presentations approved, and we have several fantastic ones in the pipeline, including subjects such as constructal theory, theological implications of […]
Dalai Lama wins latest Templeton Prize
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Religion, Science |
The last Templeton winner was a guy fronting the multiverse, so … maybe they are back on their meds now?
Pressing Bill Dembski on his conception of ID
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference, Evolution |
“My skepticism about common descent is not universally shared in the ID community. “
James Barham at Best Schools ‘fesses up #IV: The theory of natural selection is wholly inadequate to deal with the idea of purpose
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
“Ockham’s Razor cannot be explained by direct application of Maupertuis’s Least-Action Principle. And yet the puzzling similarity of the two principles remains.”
New information casts doubt on “island rule” in evolution
| March 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
Rodents above a cutoff size of 253 grams … generally got smaller over time, whereas those that started out below 253 grams generally got bigger.
