Monthly Archives: October 2013
New at The Best Schools II
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Education, News |
Does homeschooling reduce childhood obesity? Yes, and the key meal is lunch. Plus four more stories.
Is apologist William Lane Craig a follower of Darwin?
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Christian Darwinism, News |
Or is there some misunderstanding? And why now, for crying out loud, when even atheists are checking out at various points?
Halloween frite: First venomous crustacean found
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Just For Fun, News |
Okay, due to technical hassles, we missed the Fri nite frite last week, but whaddayaknow, if it isn’t Halloween. We can’t do a spook frite because the Darwinian atheists beat us to it (at least one of them believes in them, and he isn’t the only one either). Believing in them ruddy spoils the fun! […]
A hypothetical question for neo-Darwinists, on the age of the earth
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Recently I came across a fascinating biography of Lord Kelvin over on the creationist Website, crev.info. That article gave me the idea for an interesting hypothetical question, which I’d like to put to evolutionary biologists and other defenders of Darwinism. If Professors Jerry Coyne, Larry Moran or P. Z. Myers want to weigh in, I’d […]
Darwin’s Doubt author Steve Meyer on methodological naturalism (materialism)
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Philosophy, Science |
The simple fact is, information (the substance of the mind) is not material, and cannot be dealt with as if it were. That fact cannot – by definition- be allowed to penetrate the fog.
Methodological naturalism guarantees that understanding consciousness will always be an impasse.
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Mind, News |
One may as well talk about the evolution of the number 7.
Is Being Sure You Are Right Always a Bad Thing?
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
I appreciate all of those who participate here at UD. We have some great debates. Here’s one of them. Mark Frank (whom I thank for sparking this debate) thinks it is wrong to be certain: It has usually been the people who are sure they know what is right who have done the most terrible […]
Study in Science could fertilize your lawn
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Peer review, Psychology |
According to Slate, one of the tested articles producing lower empathy than great books was a Smithsonian piece about the potato … another was about air mice (house sparrows).
Amateur blows up false theory
| October 31, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Peer review |
Background: The theory was well credentialed. Now cited in academic journals over 350 times … But Brown smelled bullshit.
On the Impossibility of the Evolution of Consciousness
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Consciousness could not have evolved from “simpler” states of matter, because it is not a state of matter. To say that consciousness evolved from matter is like saying Newton’s theory of gravity evolved from apples. Even if for the sake of argument one concedes that natural selection might account for the development of a material […]
Publisher of Pandas textbook offers “The Untold Story of Dover”
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Education, News, Science |
FTE: Contrary to Judge Jones’ ruling that Pandas was originally intended to advocate creationism, FTE in fact agreed with previous court rulings against teaching actual creationism in public schools.
Texas Tech paleontologist suggests life originated in craters full of hot water
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
The best organized stew in the history of the planet.
Is there really any dark matter?
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
New research makes one wonder. It is 80% of the universe’s matter, but we can’t find any?
Atheism and religious belief in America: interesting trends
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
I always love a good survey, and the latest Yougov survey of the religious beliefs of Americans does not disappoint. The survey of 996 adults, conducted on 17-18 October 2013, contains quite a few interesting revelations about atheism and religious belief in America. Among the highlights: * Only 76% of Americans now claim to believe […]
Quote of the Day
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
“To materialists, words are nothing more than an evolved form of feces which hairless apes fling at that which displeases them.” William J Murray
New cosmology paper by skeptical scientists lends support to the fine-tuning argument
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
There has been much talk in scientific circles recently about a 2013 paper by Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt and Abraham Loeb, titled, Inflationary paradigm in trouble after Planck2013. The authors of the paper question the cosmological theory of inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of extremely rapid expansion shortly after the […]
No rational person can doubt that Earth is a mediocre planet (Copernican Principle)
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by News under Astronomy, Cosmology, News |
Actually, anyone who knows how finely tuned the earth is for life would say the opposite. SO far we have turned up absolutely nothing of life beyond Earth and Earth is stuffed with life in the most unheard-of places, as well as expected ones
Let’s See If Graham2 Sticks To His Nihilist Guns
| October 30, 2013 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
The commenter who goes by “jerry” writes: ‘What does the term evil mean?’ If we are going to use it, then we should define it . . . I have asked this question several times over the years on this site and so far no one has been able to answer it . . . […]
University course: Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Where Are They
| October 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
Yup. At University of Georgia
Materialists: How can we get the universe to play out of tune?
| October 29, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design |
Fine-tuning annoys us; we must show it isn’t true. So we have tried three strategies: Denial, nonsense, and the Copernican Principle – by far the best. So shove off, Kopernik. We are using your name, because it sells, NOT your ideas.
