2013
Psychiatrist slammed in National Geographic publication for signing Dissent from Darwinism statement
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 the hair of sleepers into elf-locks. But if Evans is suggesting that science has given us a better understanding of final causes, he is wrong. My favorite Chesterton quote: All the terms used in the science books, ‘law,’ ‘necessity,’ ‘order,’ ‘tendency,’ and so on, are really unintellectual, because they assume an inner synthesis, which we do not possess. The only words that ever satisfied me Read More ›
Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 11—Not Junk After All—Conclusion
Open Mike: Cornell OBI Conference Chapter 11—Not Junk After All —Abstract
For probability theorist, “absolute randomness” made no more sense than “absolute determinism”
People are talking about: Physiologist Denis Noble’s dismissal of Darwinian selfish gene biology
Hook, line and sinker: two evolutionary biologists endorse a video containing a blunder that a high school student could spot
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 medical student with her own blog site, is the author of the expose. I don’t wish to criticize her, because there are very few people her age who don’t have major gaps of one sort or another in their knowledge of the world. Fair enough. But I expect a lot more of two widely respected biology professors in their fifties and sixties. On August 15, Read More ›
Peer review: US behavioural scientists more likely to exaggerate findings?
Science or just common sense?
Harvard’s Steve Pinker (the defender of scientism) is getting it on all sides
ICC 2013: Paul Nelson’s Keynote Address
What would count as evidence against common descent given that organisms share such strong similarities? Darwin for the sake of argument assumed that the Creator (presumably God) created life, but argued the data accorded better with universal common ancestry. Nelson contested that view in his keynote address by arguing that if the principle of continuity is violated, there is no need to assume common ancestry. That even if a pair of organisms are 90% similar, that 10% difference could be sufficient to falsify common ancestry if the gap in differences are sufficiently large to be bridged by mindless processes. IF it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight Read More ›