There is the forgotten book Shattering the Myths of Darwinism written by a non-creationist agnostic Richard Milton. Milton expressed his skepticism of mainstream claims of the old-age of the fossil record. His work further motivated me toward the idea that there could an empirically driven critique of the accepted ages of the fossils. This is a short bio of Milton: Richard Milton is a science journalist and design engineer based in London. He is a member of Mensa, the international high-IQ society, and writes a column for Mensa Magazine. He has been a member of the Geologists’ Association for twenty years, and did extensive geological research for this book. He has been featured on the BBC, NBC, and other television Read More ›

In all things there are two different kinds of characteristics: quality and quantity. While quantity is relatively easy to define, quality is difficult to define or specify. Consider an apple. It is easy to grasp what is the difference between one apple, two apples, three apples… only an integer number changes, representing the amount of apples. Differently, it becomes hard to define in detail what an apple is, what are its essential properties and its intrinsic attributes, ─ in a single word ─ what is its quality, which distinguishes it from anything else. This is more true more the thing investigated is complex and rich of information and organization. Often a quality of a thing is related to its shape. Read More ›

In addition to accumulating 5.7 million dollars in science grants, he has published 186 scientific papers, 102 of which are in refereed journals, the others in conference proceedings. It might be instructive to compare Hartnett’s total number of publications with other scientists using a graph (created by Mike Gene) of the number of scientific papers published. The researcher who surpasses Hartnett is Francis Collins, who, in the eyes of some is a “creationist” because he believes there are some features in the universe (like human compassion) that are not the result of mindless forces. The vocal GNU atheists evolutionists, especially Sam Harris, ought to be a little embarrassed that a YEC surpassed them in scientific productivity. Hartnett surpasses the self-appointed Read More ›

Tomorrow some of us will get back to regular ID news, but it would be really hard to ignore this:: The big fat truth: More and more studies show that being overweight does not always shorten life — but some public-health researchers would rather not talk about them. Nature’s Virginia Hughes has tussled with the diet industry and lived to tell about it. Skinny: Clinical obesity is—by definition—a problem. That is why it is called “clinical.” But the fact that you or somebody or somebody’s brother-in-law might be 15 lbs. more than the insurance company charts think they should be is not necessarily a medical or health problem. Maybe the time, energy and money spent dealing with it could be Read More ›

Is the hypothesis of Young Earth Creation (YEC) relevant to ID? Most in the ID community will say, “NO”, but let me offer some reasons to think the answer could be, “YES”. The hypothesis of a young Earth or young universe comes from religious beliefs rooted in a chronology constructed by taking the genealogies in the Bible (like Luke Chapter 3, 1 Chronicles or the Table of Nations in Genesis 10). YEC is not strictly an Evangelical Christian hypothesis but is accepted by some Jewish traditions. For example, see this commentary on the Jewish calendar by physicist Gerald Schroeder: One of the most obvious perceived contradictions between Torah and science is the age of the universe. Is it billions of Read More ›

A North Carolina State University research team has reported that a mutant strain of German cockroaches have gained a new biological function over the last 20 years: they have developed the capacity to perceive sugar as bitter, enabling them to avoid sugar-coated cockroach traps and increase their chances of survival. The research team’s original report, which is titled, Changes in Taste Neurons Support the Emergence of an Adaptive Behavior in Cockroaches was jointly authored by Ayako Wada-Katsumata, Jules Silverman, and Coby Schal and was published last week in Science magazine (24 May 2013: Vol. 340 no. 6135 pp. 972-975, DOI: 10.1126/science.1234854). Science reporter Victoria Gill summarized the scientists’ findings in a BBC News report (Cockroaches lose their ‘sweet tooth’ to Read More ›

There is the common fallacy that ID was created to sneak creationism into public high schools. Actually, one could make the case that ID was created to sneak “creationism” into universities. 🙂 ID literature is more sophisticated than creation science literature, perhaps because it is (except for Of Pandas and People) usually directed more toward a university audience… Eugenie Scott Eugenie Scott defeats Ed Brayton and I feel that the essential argument has to be carried on at the higher level, at the university level, and it’s interesting you see that the people that come from the NCSE side are always trying to say this is just an issue in the high schools Phil Johnson The link below is a Read More ›