Friday Five: William A. Dembski by Devon Williams, associate editor, CitizenLink.org ‘Are there patterns in biological systems that would point us to intelligence?’ Leading scientist and mathematician William A. Dembski has devoted years to researching intelligent design. He is a research professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has been featured on the Read More…
Author: DLH
Developing clean energy paths, conversions and sustainable fuels, exploring the foundations of knowledge, and probing potentials for testable theories of origins contrasting intelligent with material causes.
Pope for sound stewardship
Pope Benedict XVI has formally challenged governments to address the moral issue of placing humanity above the environment. He calls for political decisions to be based on sound science, not political agendas. His challenge to sound science over ideological pressures parallels issues in the origins debate. Note particularly the parallels between differing presuppositions versus consequences Read More…
Can Texas remain neutral on origin theories?
* Can or should the State of Texas remain neutral on origin theories? * Can politicians enforce such a principle? * Would remaining neutral violate the First Amendment? Consider the following recent events that offer a remarkable contrast to the case of denying tenure to astronomer Gonzalez: ——————– State science curriculum director resigns Move comes Read More…
Regents asked to consider e-mails: Des Moines Register
Regents asked to consider e-mails By LISA ROSSI • REGISTER AMES BUREAU • December 4, 2007 “Advocates for Iowa State University professor Guillermo Gonzalez, who was turned down for tenure, called on the Iowa Board of Regents Monday to consider the e-mails that show faculty members at ISU were uncomfortable with promoting someone who advocated Read More…
Iowa State Daily on Gonzalez tenure emails
Organization attacks ruling to deny tenure E-mails suggest Gonzalez’s beliefs affected decision Kyle Miller and Ross Boettcher “Issue date: 12/4/07 The Discovery Institute, a pro-intelligent design organization, released portions of e-mails of ISU professors and administrators “conspiring” to deny tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez, associate professor of physics and astronomy, in a press conference in Des Read More…
Cyclic microevolution with cyclic weather
Posted by DLH at , PBS Nova Discussion on Judgment Day, The Design of Life, Nov. 13, 2007 It appears that the predictive essence of (micro) evolution is summarized in the principles we learned in kinder garden. Namely: The Grand Old Duke of York The grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men. Read More…
Pathological consequences of Darwinism vs ID
The global warming debate has striking parallels to the evolution/intelligent design debate. James Lewis explores the pathological consequences when political correctness replaces the search for truth in science: “Trofimko Lysenko is not a household name; but it should be, because he was the model for all the Politically Correct “science” in the last hundred years. Read More…
Antony Flew interview
ToTheSource.org Exclusive Flew Interview Benjamin Wiker: You say in There is a God, that “it may well be that no one is as surprised as I am that my exploration of the Divine has after all these years turned from denial…to discovery.” . . . But wasn’t there a point in the “argument” where you Read More…
Does possibility constitute evidence for existence?
Parallel universes exist – study “Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as “one of the most important developments in the history of science.” . . .” The Oxford team, led by Dr David Deutsch, showed mathematically that the bush-like branching structure created by the Read More…
Whales illustrate intelligent design
Some UK opinions for/against ID in The Herald: “It seems to me that the atheistic contributors to the debate on intelligent design ignore one essential point which none of them seems to want to confront. In an examination of the question of our genesis, one fact is ignored: all speculation, analysis and conjecture as to Read More…
Bustrak on Differences between ID, Creationism & Evolution
Bustrak’s insightful comparisons and interesting definition and basis for Intelligent Design are published as an Opinion Article 2007-09-12 on the Michigan Tech Lode: Web Exclusive: The differences between Intelligent Design, Creationism, and Evolution By: John Bustrak “Three terms, addressing the same issue, where everything in existence comes from, e.g. origins, are hotly contested. For Read More…
PZ Myers supports academic freedom for Marks
PZ Myers of Pharyngula has stood up on the side of academic freedom at Baylor University for Robert Marks, II. Baylor episode is getting wider circulation Posted on: September 4, 2007 3:07 PM, by PZ Myer “The story of the Robert Marks debacle has now made the pages of The Chronicle of Higher Education. If Read More…
Who dares read Behe’s heresy?
Michael Behe’s The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, was released this June 2007. Most scientific establishment reviews have been negative. e.g. See Wikipedia. However, now that schools and universities have awakened from summer, Edge of Evolution is running at Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,778 in Books. Popular in these categories: #3 Read More…
Matter of time for intelligent design
Three cheers for an editor with courage: “Editor: Lebanon Daily News In the words of the brilliant investigative-journalist and four-time Gold Medallion winner, Lee Strobel, “My road to atheism was paved by science … but, ironically science became my later journey to God.†The public needs enlightenment on the truth of intelligent design as increasing Read More…
NASA bit by Y2K temperature bug
Some of the hype over recent US temperature records got deflated when NASA corrected a Y2K temperature processing error found by Steve McIntyre. (Aug. 13, 2007: McIntyre is upgrading server, and is temporarily posting c/o Anthony Watts’ Watts Up With That) In Does Hansen’s Error “Matter?” ClimateAudit.org takes NASA to task for not clearly publicizing Read More…