Monthly Archives: August 2013
Space and time originate in a computer game and yes, this IS, like, science or something
| August 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
Nature (yes, THAT Nature) News: Testing such ideas empirically will be extremely difficult. … But it may not be impossible. …
Atheist philosophers dissenting from Darwin … what they are really saying …
| August 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, News |
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.
Others are talking about: Atheist philosopher Jerry Fodor’s What Darwin Got Wrong
| August 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Atheism, Darwinism, News |
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.
Atheist ghosts back, like a bad penny…
| August 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Science historian: Other atheists have believed in ghosts too, apparently.
From reader Karl Krysko: On gazing upon the grave of Charles Darwin
| August 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
I had the wonderful experience today, of visiting Westminster Abbey in London …
Fri nite frite: Atheist who believes in ghosts?
| August 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Just For Fun, News |
At Richard Dawkins’ s site.
Common descent? Universal common descent? What the diff?
| August 30, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life, speciation |
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.
Science kitsch? Like Dawkins on a beer mug? Shermer on a chocolate wrapper?
| August 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy, Science |
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.
Jonathan Wells on the junk DNA myth
| August 30, 2013 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA' |
A bit of background to the Cornell OBI paper.
We are all Martians now, revisited
| August 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
Origin of life researchers are at an impasse and willing to consider any thesis, including pure storytelling.
Psychiatrist slammed in National Geographic publication for signing Dissent from Darwinism statement
| August 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Mind, Neuroscience |
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.
Water is Bewitched
| August 29, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
“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 […]
Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 11—Not Junk After All—Conclusion
| August 29, 2013 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Cornell Conference |
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.
Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 11—Not Junk After All —Abstract
| August 29, 2013 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Cornell Conference, News |
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.
For probability theorist, “absolute randomness” made no more sense than “absolute determinism”
| August 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
Slava Gerovitch: Mathematics had led him to believe that the world was both driven by chance and fundamentally ordered according to the laws of probability.
People are talking about: Physiologist Denis Noble’s dismissal of Darwinian selfish gene biology
| August 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Genetics, Intelligent Design, News |
Are Darwin’s faithful starting to get centred out? Thoughts?
Hook, line and sinker: two evolutionary biologists endorse a video containing a blunder that a high school student could spot
| August 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
Ray Comfort’s video, Evolution vs. God, has attracted criticism since its release earlier this month. No surprises there. But when two prominent evolutionary biologists lend their endorsement to an expose of the video, which contains even worse scientific errors than the video it claims to debunk, then you have to laugh. Jaclyn Glenn, a 25-year-old […]
Peer review: US behavioural scientists more likely to exaggerate findings?
| August 28, 2013 | Posted by News under Peer review, Psychology |
Unconscious bias? Publish or perish? Both?
Science or just common sense?
| August 28, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Psychology, Science |
When it’s really hard to tell, you have to know there is a problem.
