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.
Month: May 2013
Stephen Hawking boycotts Israeli conference
Winston Churchill liked to say that democracy is the worst system except for all the others, and its decline can have only one result.
Has NASA spotted a rat on Mars?
Last time, it was a face.
Noam Chomsky: Huffing against design in the universe backfires?
Curiously, Chomsky, though comfortable with naturalist/materialist accounts in general, doubted Darwin.
Those Bothersome Tiny Eye Movements Really Do Have a Purpose
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 Read More…
Sign the Academic Freedom Petition To Defend Eric Hedin!
Casey Luskin did a fine job today defending academic freedom on the Michael Medved show against Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). Regardless of what you think about intelligent design, you should consider helping Eric Hedin (pictured left), the physicist at Ball State University who has come under fire merely for allowing Read More…
If My Eyes Are a Window, Is There Anyone Looking Out?
For the holiday weekend LK and I jumped on our hawg, joined some dear friends and headed to the Black Hills of South Dakota. There is nothing like a long motorcycle ride for contemplation. The hypnotic thrumming of the big V twin scant inches beneath my seat, the passing scenery, the wind and sun, and Read More…
The ghost of William Paley says his piece in reply to Darwin and successors, on the commonly dismissed “watch found in the field” argument
Over at the KF blog, we have recently been entertaining some ghosts from our civilisation’s past, who are concerned about its present and now sadly likely future in light of the sad history recorded in Acts 27, of a sea voyage to Rome gone disastrously wrong because the voyagers were manipulated into venturing back out Read More…
Will anti-creationist hysteria target homeschoolers?
No one cares whether kids learn anything or end up in jail or on welfare, as long as they are not taught “creationism.”
Science, free speech and climate change
Why you should care how the debate is conducted.
Good morning. 80,000 have allegedly applied for a one-way mission to Mars
… people who can’t figure out what Goodbye means, in Dutch or English.
Why Penguins Can’t Fly
One of the problems Aristotelianism faced in the sixteenth century was that it had become gratuitous. A hot fire dried out a damp cloth because, Aristotelians explained, fire has the quality of dryness and heat. But these were nothing more than descriptive labels. The qualities did not explain how the fire dried the cloth. As Read More…
Naturalism, Intelligent Design and Extraordinary Claims Part II
In my earlier post on this subject, I attempted to address the question of whether or not the claim “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, or what I called the EC-EE claim, was itself an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence. In this post, I want to take a step back from that and just grant that Read More…
The psychiatric bible?
But why did anyone ever treat the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a Bible anyway?