2012

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

For several years now evolutionists have presented the human chromosome number two as an excellent example of how science supports and confirms evolution and this week science writer Carl Zimmer continued the celebration in his Discovermagazine blog. What Zimmer and the evolutionists fail to comprehend, however, is that their argument from the human chromosome number two is an excellent example of the religion and rationalism at the heart of evolutionary thought.  Read more

No one should give any credence to computer simulations who is not familiar with what they are and what they can do. In my work in aerospace R&D I was recently alerted to a severe problem in a computer simulation. The original simulation said that a mechanical part was half as strong as empirical testing said it was. I triple-checked all the material properties of the part in question, and ran two simulations based on the original model. Both simulations were clearly in error. I then noticed something. The solid finite elements were modeled with four-node tetrahedrons, not ten-node, second-order tetras that would provide the requisite degrees of freedom to make the model work correctly. I realize that what I Read More ›

Did anyone happen to notice that two paradigms underlying human evolution have crumbled? Meanwhile, here’s life as a chimp. Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista