2014

I’ve been saying the OP’s title for years now. And, every day, I read review articles in the like of Phys.Org (they usually get out the articles first!) and, sure enough, there’s an article undermining Darwinian orthodoxy and the neo-Darwinian mechanisms that underpin it. Here’s today’s latest. It involves the insect genome and proteins once considered indispensible, hence ‘conserved’, throughout all eukaryotic lineages: Cell division, the process that ensures equal transmission of genetic information to daughter cells, has been fundamentally conserved for over a billion years of evolution. Considering its ubiquity and essentiality, it is expected that proteins that carry out cell division would also be highly conserved. Challenging this assumption, scientists from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found Read More ›

In my prior post UD News commented regarding someone who has denied that the difference between a random string of text and a string of text that consists of English sentences is that the latter conforms to a specification, i.e., the conventions of the English language. She said: It is hard to believe anyone doesn’t know this. My initial impulse was to write that I would modify her observation to: “It is impossible to believe anyone doesn’t know this; it is hard to believe anyone would not admit they know what they must know.” Upon reflection, however, I decided it is not really hard to believe after all. I remember very vividly when my friends told me Santa Claus was Read More ›

Over the last ten years in these pages we have seen versions of the following basic progression hundreds of times: 1.  Materialist makes false claim about ID. 2.  ID proponent explodes false claim and asks materialist to acknowledge his error. 3.  Materialist never gives an inch, bobs and weaves, and tries to change the subject. In this post E.Seigner gives us such a pristine example that I decided to use it as a paradigmatic illustration of the progression. At 265 E.Seigner trots out a version of the hoary old “ID proponents just think complex things must be designed” error. He writes: The further problem is that the contrast is not solid, but it’s a point on a continuum, where the point is Read More ›

Satellite instruments began uniformly measuring temperatures throughout the Earth’s lower atmosphere in 1979.  Climate scientists overseeing these NASA satellite instruments produced the chart below showing the following temperature trends: *  a plateau of temperatures, with absolutely no warming, from 1979 through 1997 *  a large temperature spike in 1998 *  a return to the 1979-1997 mean in 1999-2000 *  a modest escalation of temperatures in 2001 *  an elevated plateau of essentially flat temperatures from 2002-2014**   Here is the chart: One thing had been established beyond the slightest doubt.  The global warming alarmists’ computer models have been exploded.  They were wrong wrong wrong.  There is no other word for it. Now, those same alarmists say, “pay no attention to Read More ›

Because when the Los Angeles Times runs a piece questioning the A in AGW (anthropogenic, or man-made, global warming), then you know something is wrong:  Read more

Many readers of this blog owe a debt of gratitude to Professor John Rendle-Short, and this is the case whether you know his name or not. Described as an “esteemed and highly respected paediatrician”, his career was extraordinarily productive and influential. In Australia, about 2600 doctors graduated from the University of Queensland with knowledge of child development and health gained under his leadership. Since 1984, the Rendle-Short Gold Medal has been awarded to medical students gaining best marks in paediatrics and child health. His academic work started in 1950 when he became a Registrar to neonates in Cardiff. He authored a textbook, A Synopsis of Children’s Diseases, that passed through six editions and was used as a standard text on Read More ›