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Month: August 2013

Cosmology Intelligent Design News

Space and time originate in a computer game and yes, this IS, like, science or something

Nature (yes, THAT Nature) News: Testing such ideas empirically will be extremely difficult. … But it may not be impossible. …

Posted on August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Author News Comments(14)
Atheism Darwinism News

Atheist philosophers dissenting from Darwin … what they are really saying …

These guys are, by temperament, stuck with the intellectual life, which they understandably want to live and can no longer live under the constraints that cultural Darwinism requires.

Posted on August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Author News Comments(12)
Atheism Darwinism News

Others are talking about: Atheist philosopher Jerry Fodor’s What Darwin Got Wrong

Egnor: Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini’s book What Darwin Got Wrong was published in 2010. Having read it now, perhaps belatedly, I can report that it is a masterpiece.

Posted on August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Author News Comments(3)
Atheism Culture Darwinism News

Atheist ghosts back, like a bad penny…

Science historian: Other atheists have believed in ghosts too, apparently.

Posted on August 31, 2013August 31, 2013 Author News Comments(6)
Culture Darwinism News

From reader Karl Krysko: On gazing upon the grave of Charles Darwin

I had the wonderful experience today, of visiting Westminster Abbey in London …

Posted on August 31, 2013 Author News Comments(2)
Just For Fun News

Fri nite frite: Atheist who believes in ghosts?

At Richard Dawkins’ s site.

Posted on August 30, 2013August 30, 2013 Author News Comments(6)
Education News

New at The Best Schools

Enjoy!

Posted on August 30, 2013 Author News Comments(3)
News Origin Of Life speciation

Common descent? Universal common descent? What the diff?

The sheer unlikelihood of life coming to exist at all is not an argument for universal common descent; it is an argument for a non-random origin of life.

Posted on August 30, 2013August 30, 2013 Author News Comments(21)
Intelligent Design News Philosophy Science

Science kitsch? Like Dawkins on a beer mug? Shermer on a chocolate wrapper?

Tyler: In Crick’s case (and many like him), the philosophy is naturalism that is presented as the essence of science. The problem then is a close-minded dogmatism about the way the world works.

Posted on August 30, 2013 Author News Comment(0)
'Junk DNA'

Jonathan Wells on the junk DNA myth

A bit of background to the Cornell OBI paper.

Posted on August 30, 2013 Author News Comments(50)
Intelligent Design News Origin Of Life

We are all Martians now, revisited

Origin of life researchers are at an impasse and willing to consider any thesis, including pure storytelling.

Posted on August 30, 2013 Author News Comments(4)
Darwinism Mind Neuroscience

Psychiatrist slammed in National Geographic publication for signing Dissent from Darwinism statement

Suffice to say, Virginia Hughes, and Maia Szalavitz who “contributed much to the reporting and thinking behind this review” … have no idea what they are talking about and wouldn’t care if they did. They needn’t. They need only demonstrate enthusiasm for Darwinism.

Posted on August 29, 2013August 30, 2013 Author News Comments(4)
Intelligent Design

Water is Bewitched

“I completely agree that scientific progress has undermined our old animist beliefs and led to the disenchantment of the world.” Jules Evans I was thinking about that highlighted part, and my response is, “Well, yes and no.” Yes, if Evans is saying nothing more than that we no longer believe, for example, that fairies tangle Read More…

Posted on August 29, 2013August 29, 2013 Author Barry Arrington Comments(54)
'Junk DNA' Cornell Conference

Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 11—Not Junk After All—Conclusion

Jonathan Wells: So non-protein-coding regions of DNA that some previously regarded as “junk”turn out to encode biological information that greatly increases the known information-carrying capacity of DNA.

Posted on August 29, 2013August 29, 2013 Author News Comments(13)
'Junk DNA' Cornell Conference News

Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 11—Not Junk After All —Abstract

Jonathan Wells: Clearly, the notion of “junk DNA” is obsolete, and the amount of biological information in the genome far exceeds the information in protein-coding regions.

Posted on August 29, 2013August 30, 2013 Author News Comments(2)

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