Friday afternoon I returned from a meeting to find number one daughter waiting at my office. “What’s up, hon”? “I just needed a daddy hug.” “Anything in particular”? “Yeah, mom and I were at the midnight premier of Batman at the Mills.  But I was thinking.  Mom lives just a few blocks from the Aurora 16.  She changed her plans when I invited her to drive out to see the movie with me.  If I hadn’t done that she would have been there for the shooting.” As I wrapped my arms around my daughter and gave her a daddy hug, I said, “Well, God is looking out for you and her.” But even as the words were leaving my mouth Read More ›

UD News highlights from C Hunter, how Darwin wrote: If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case. Hunter aptly picks up that: . . . this was hardly a concession. Darwin may sound generous here, allowing that his theory would “absolutely break down,” but his requirement for such a failure is no less than impossible. For no one can show that an organ “could not possibly” have been formed in such a way. So in short order Darwin reduced what seemed to be a dilemma for his theory into a logical truism. Read More ›

A couple of years back, I developed the IOSE as a draft critical survey of Origins Science education, from a design perspective, intended to balance the dominant ideology of too much edu in origins science. ENV announces a new online course here, that focusses specifically on Darwinism and ID. (The IOSE starts with worldview ideas issues, goes on to cosmology and timelines, looks at OOL, body plan evo, origin of man and mind, then at origins science in society. It also deals with developing science methods skills.) FYI. END