Monthly Archives: May 2013
What does Stephen Hawking advise grad students?
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Education |
Also, University administrator: Burn book advocating academic freedom on campus!
The powers of 10 and the human body
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Design inference |
Recently, we noted cicadas’ apparent predilection for the prime numbers of 13 and 17.
Either Tallis is right or Darwin will save us from the plague of disembodied space brains
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Darwinism |
Darwinism + Cosmology = Utter Nonsense
Neuroscientist: Not only isn’t philosophy dead, it isn’t even on life support
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Philosophy, Science |
Tallis is, of course, best known for his recent book, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis, and the Misrepresentation of Humanity.
Today Is Your Last Day To Take Advantage of Pre-Order Deal For Darwin’s Doubt
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by News under News |
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Barry Concedes a Point to TSZ, Well, Sorta
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
My thanks go to KF for pointing out the dustup over at TSZ over my last post. I found this little gem at TSZ particularly amusing. Allan Miller quotes me and responds: Barry: “Materialists are obliged to believe …” Miller: … absolutely nothing. There is no obligation. Well Allan, I suppose it depends on what […]
TSZ explodes in anger and mischaracterisations over BA’s recent post at UD: “If My Eyes Are a Window, Is There Anyone Looking Out?”
| May 31, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society, Video |
(In case you think this is about a strawman, cf. here) A few days ago UD President, BA, posted on the topic, “If My Eyes Are a Window, Is There Anyone Looking Out?” Reaction at objecting blog TSZ has been explosive. For just one instance — a slice of the cake reveals its ingredients, we […]
Pioneer geneticist George Church should watch his back?
| May 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Intelligent Design |
When you aim at Darwin’s dullards, you must not miss.
Cicadas remain a mystery of evolution
| May 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Evolutionary biology |
As those who live among them will know, the 17-year insect, the cicada, emerges en masse this year after five larval stages, mates and dies. They are an ongoing puzzle: In 1665, the first volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society included a report from New England concerning “swarms of strange insects, and the […]
So extinction might be reversible? Flowing wooly mammoth blood found in carcass
| May 30, 2013 | Posted by News under extinction |
If this find holds up, watch for people reopening the recent debate about bringing extinct creatures back to life by cloning them.
Rough terrain caused humans to start walking upright? Yet another bipedalism theory
| May 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Human evolution |
There are probably more theories on why humans took to walking on two feet than there are suspects in the famous Piltdown Man fossil fraud
NCSE affirms evolutionism is no longer the core of science education
| May 30, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Humor |
I think the NCSE got tired of defending Darwinism. I guess the Discovery Institute promoting ID and the creationists promoting creationism was bad enough, but when mainstream scientists began to join the anti-Darwin fray, it was too much. So what did the NCSE do? They found something to replace Darwinism as the central core of […]
VIDEO: Guillermo Gonzalez lectures at UC Davis on the Privileged Planet thesis
| May 30, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, Fine tuning, ID Foundations, Multiverse, Origin Of Life, Video |
WK has pointed out a vid sequence at YouTube, in which Dr Gonzalez lays out a good summary of the privileged planet thesis. Here is the start: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt WK (what, you haven’t bookmarked and speed-dialled this blog yet? tut, tut! . . . ) summarises on points of significance for reflection: […]
How ID helps scientists: providing a framework for complexity
| May 29, 2013 | Posted by Robert Sheldon under Intelligent Design |
COMPLEXITY =/=> EVOLUTION Many Darwinists equate complexity with evolution. They see the fossil record of increasing complexity with time as precisely what defines Evolution. But is increasing complexity always a good thing? The history of computers is instructive. Your iPhone and laptop computer are constructed using base-2, principally because flip-flops and early binary circuits were […]
The fine work of Joe Felsenstein and M. Wilson Sayres
| May 29, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Genetics |
Joe Felsenstein is an evolutionist that has a unique distinction of having his work favorably cited by creationists and bible scholars (except where he disagrees). For example, religious scholars are using Joe’s work to find descendants of the line of priests from the time of the Bible’s King David. See: Y-Chromosomal Aaron. Joe is also […]
Common sense on the so-called Copernican Principle
| May 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology |
Anti-design Eugene Koonin may have unintentionally come up with the strongest argument for design; a multiverse, for which there is no evidence, is the best hope of discrediting it.
Stephen Hawking boycotts Israeli conference
| May 29, 2013 | Posted by News under academic freedom |
Winston Churchill liked to say that democracy is the worst system except for all the others, and its decline can have only one result.
Noam Chomsky: Huffing against design in the universe backfires?
| May 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Climate change |
Curiously, Chomsky, though comfortable with naturalist/materialist accounts in general, doubted Darwin.
Those Bothersome Tiny Eye Movements Really Do Have a Purpose
| May 29, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
A few years ago we reported on fascinating eye movement research. If you stare at a horizontal line first, then a circle appears stretched out, like an ellipse. This simple fact was ingeniously used in an experiment to study how signals from the eye are processed. Our eyes move several times per second. If we were aware […]
