Monthly Archives: February 2015
Evolution by natural selection acting on random mutation (Darwinism) within the known life of the universe
| February 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Natural selection, News |
Steve Williams: Can you say “intractable problem”?
Darwin event at museum scuttled when some engineers ask for equal time for ID
| February 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
Honouring Darwin’s “remarkable impact on biology, cosmology, and the scientific process. Cosmology too, eh? Like we thought. Religion!
Lecture: Bacterial cell walls, antibiotics and the origins of life
| February 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
Many bacteria can switch to a cell wall deficient “L-form” state, completely resistant to many antibiotics, possibly unnoticed by our immune systems.
Essay contest: “Do Life and Living Forms present a problem for materialism?”
| February 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Naturalism, News, Origin Of Life |
From the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Cambridge University Press
Podcasts: Physicist John Bloom on the Big Bang, fine-tuning of the universe, and design-friendly views in physics
| February 28, 2015 | Posted by News under Big Bang, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
The Big Bang and fine-tuning are not challenged fr lack of evidence but because they are unpopular evidence.
It’s Just Getting Worse: Our Retina Structure is “optimized for our vision purposes”
| February 28, 2015 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Research out of Israel continues to hammer away at the once powerful proof text for evolution, that our retina is one big kludge given that the photocells were obviously installed backwards. Not only that, but to add insult to injury, the resulting neuron wire bundle had to go somewhere, and the result was a blind spot in […]
Study documents the rise of authoritarianism in science
| February 27, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
News here has noticed the trend, and also the growing impatience with the traditional rules of science that constrain their fantasies.
Further to Oops. Be careful when you say “I trust scientists” …
| February 27, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, News |
MSM hacks have zero interest in science as such. If they did, they would be all over any number of “science-based” scams and the ongoing scandal of peer review.
RDM’s challenge to naturalistic hyperskeptics regarding THEIR “extraordinary claims”
| February 27, 2015 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinist rhetorical tactics, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society, Selective Hyperskepticism |
NB: RDM paper, here In the current VJT discussion thread on What Evidence is, RD Miksa asks a telling question (slightly adjusted for readability) of naturalistic hyperskeptics: RDM, 25: . . . the ironic thing to note in terms of comments from the anti-super-naturalist side is how they fail to realize that their very own […]
Why atheists can’t show that Ken Ham is wrong
| February 26, 2015 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
Professor Jerry Coyne has written a post titled, Ken Ham vs. Dawkins: On the nature of science and physical law, in which he criticizes Ken Ham’s claim that evolution is a “historical” science, dealing with events that can’t be observed, and hence can’t be verified. Coyne contends that “there is no distinction between historical science […]
Chemist Harry Lonsdale and the secret of life
| February 26, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
The metaphysical naturalist basis of his quest may have precluded his examining the “cash value” of Darwinism in the project.
New theory as to why matter predominates over antimatter
| February 26, 2015 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
Researchers: The asymmetry may have been produced as a result of the motion of the Higgs field
Oops. Be careful when you say “I trust scientists” …
| February 26, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design |
Someone might hear you. Wonder how YOU could possibly mean that.
Scott Walker says most people don’t care about the issues media obsess over
| February 26, 2015 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
They need to create the impression that Walker must be a dunce if he doesn’t “believe” whatever studio blowdrys “believe” about evolution.
Do demoralized arts faculty affect the ID controversy?
| February 26, 2015 | Posted by News under Education, Intelligent Design, News |
Yes, because the mood is seeping into the sciences. A full professor now claims not to know what evidence is.
Do You Believe In Evolution?
| February 25, 2015 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
There has been some discussion about what a politician should say when asked by a reporter, Do you believe in evolution? My response would be: Of course! Everyone with an IQ above room temperature, who isn’t a science denier, knows that it is an established scientific fact, supported by all the evidence, not to mention […]
Real Clear Science on what if there were genuinely separate human species?
| February 25, 2015 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
A critical question is, would the “separate species” have genuinely different values from what we know of typical humans?
Evolution of an Irreducibly Complex System – Lenski’s E. Coli
| February 25, 2015 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Irreducible Complexity |
On another thread we have been discussing abiogenesis in particular, but there was also some discussion about the evolution of an irreducibly complex system. Commenter CHartsil indicated that “we actually watched an IC system evolve” in reference to Lenski’s E. coli research. At my request, he has posted a brief summary of the research and […]
Darwin’s man PZ Myers attacks Canadian medic, on neuroplasticity
| February 25, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Hits wall.
On skepticism about skeptics: Oxford mathematician John Lennox weighs in
| February 25, 2015 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Naturalism, News |
Is Shermer’s sell-by date long past, like Dawkins’? It does have that feel.
