Here’s Another Study Showing Introns Are Not Random
Evolution is, as evolutionists like to say, a fact. But that conclusion comes from philosophical and theological reasoning. From a strictly scientific perspective evolution is problematic. Virtually every area of scientific evidence challenges evolution. Consider for example the introns—segments of DNA within genes in the higher organisms. When introns were discovered evolutionists, in typical fashion, figured that introns were non functional, biological junk. They reasoned that introns had been randomly inserted into genomes for no particular reason, and now they appear throughout the higher organisms in the usual common descent pattern. Even if all that was true (which it isn’t) it wouldn’t help, for introns fundamentally contradict evolutionary theory. Read more
To recognize design is to recognize products of a like-minded process, identifying the real probability in question, Part I
“Take the coins and dice and arrange them in a way that is evidently designed.” That was my instruction to groups of college science students who voluntarily attended my extra-curricular ID classes sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ at James Madison University (even Jason Rosenhouse dropped in a few times). Many of the students were biology and science students hoping to learn truths that are forbidden topics in their regular classes… They would each have two boxes, and each box contained dice and coins. They were instructed to randomly shake one box and then put designs in the other box. While they did their work, I and another volunteer would leave the room or turn our backs. After the students Read More ›
Pop science media’s science fictions: Shock n’ awe? No, just shook n’ odd, really
Dembski v. Shapiro: Does science point to intelligent design?
The Science Fictions series at your fingertips – origin of life
The Science Fictions series at your fingertips – cosmology
Rob Sheldon’s take on the new Planck data: The investigators really, really wanted to find something that the Americans missed.
Mark Frank, “OK, I’m With You Fellas.”
O Brother Where Art Thou is in my top five all time favorite movies. In this particular clip both Everett and Pete want to be the leader of the three-man “gang.” So they take a vote . . . O Brother Clip. I was reminded of this when I read one of Mark Frank’s comments to my last post. In that post I pointed out that over at The Skeptical Zone, Elizabeth Liddle says this: Chance is not an explanation, and therefore cannot be rejected, or supported, as a hypothesis. But Ronald A. Thisted, PhD, a statistics professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health Studies at the University of Chicago, says this: If the chance explanation can be ruled Read More ›
The Science Fictions series at your fingertips: the human mind
Human language depends on bent vocal tract?
The Science Fiction series at your fingertips – human evolution
Can we trace individual words back to the Ice Age?
Talk to the fossils. Let’ see what they say back
O’Leary for News’s new series here at Evolution News & Views: A while back, I started a series here called “Science Fictions” that I began by asking a simple question: Why is the space alien understood as science but Bigfoot as mythology? The reason I asked is that, still lacking specimens of either entity, decade after decade, answers are likely to be revealing. Those answers help us see how “science” is understood, allowing us to interpret claims about the origin of the universe, life, human life, and the human mind. In general, naturalism (the idea that inanimate nature somehow created minds) seems to be the guiding principle of enterprises classed as science today, even though the evidence actually goes in Read More ›