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… “religious issues will arise” if negative evaluations of Darwin’s theory of evolution are presented. If so, that would make clear that the theory itself is a religious one. A fact that has never been seriously doubted by its more knowledgeable proponents, ... Read More ›

Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 8—Entropy, Evolution and Open Systems—Conclusion

Sewell: One can still argue that once upon a time, on a special planet called Earth, a collection of atoms formed by pure chance that was able to duplicate itself, and these complex collections of atoms were able to pass their complex structures on to their descendants generation after generation, even correcting errors. One can still argue that, after a long time, ... Read More ›

Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 8—Entropy, Evolution and Open Systems—Abstract

Sewell: ... unless we are willing to argue that the influx of solar energy into the Earth makes the appearance of spaceships, computers and the Internet not extremely improbable, we have to conclude that at least the basic principle behind the second law has in fact been violated here. Read More ›

BA77’s off topic thread, Volume 1 — my pastor’s wife in Cosmopolitan

Since BA77 likes posting so many off topic comments on so many threads, and because others probably want to talk about off topics, I’m creating the first official off topic thread at UD just for off topic comments. YAY! Here is my off topic, my pastor tried to get the congregation to stick around for 20 minutes longer than usual to take care of business matters requiring a vote. To give us incentive to remain, he said he’d pass around a copy of Cosmopolitan Magazine with a photo of his wife in it :shock:! Sure enough, she was in cosmopolitan magazine in the May 1965 issue. She was in a photo that featured former Congressman James Weaver, her dad…. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jdweaver.htm Read More ›

Quadruple Vodka! Examples of the universe being deceptive

The Lord is Subtle but he is not malicious. Albert Einstein I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Albert Einstein Look at the blue galaxies in this photo. Astronomers conclude the 33 of the blue galaxies are only 11 galaxies that are producing an optical illusion created by gravitation lensing (as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity). Image : This gravitational lens shows a strange blue objects stretched. They are spread in a circle in this picture, but are only multiple views of a single ring galaxy. The analysis showed that at least 33 images of 11 different background galaxies are discernible in this image. Predicted by general relativity by Albert Einstein, a number of gravitational lensing have Read More ›

Pro-ID author of Privileged Planet reaches #4 on NY Times Best Seller list!

Jay Richards who co-authored pro-ID book Privileged Planet has now come out with a best seller that ranks #4 in the NY Times! This is his 2nd NY Times best seller. Congratulations! Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes NOTES: 1. HT Rob Crowther, Discovery Institute 2. photo credits http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519r4sESkkL._SY346_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_.jpg 3. Jay W. Richards, PhD, is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Indivisible and author of Money, Greed, and God, which won a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award. He is the Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. 4. No wonder Jerry Coyne wanted to Read More ›

YEC Geneticist Jeff Tomkins pro-ID website and book Design and Complexity of the Cell!

Jeff Tomkins was a faculty member of Clemson, was reviewer of mainstream biology journals, and ran Clemson’s Genomics Institute. Like biologist Robert Carter, he’s given up a promising career in secular academia and research to devote himself to resisting the falsehoods in evolutionary biology. I wrote about his presentation at ICC 2013: Geneticist Jeff Tomkins vs. Evolutionary biologist who got laughed off stage. His website is: http://designed-dna.org/ He also wrote a pro-ID book for creationists. which normally retails at $32, but which can be purchased at a deep discount here: The Design and Complexity of the Cell The functions within the cells of our bodies are foundational to our existence. Understanding these functions has made the environment and the processes Read More ›