Should we all pack up and go home with such erudite opponents as this? Watching Intelligent Design – Alexander Nussbaum Free Enquiry April / May 2012 Volume 32, Number 3 (edited exerpts below) Watches are a product of intelligent design and are often used as an example of such by creationists in their beloved – Read More…
Author: idnet.com.au
Working as a medical doctor in Australia, I have been interested in whether there is detectable and definable design in nature for a long time. My intuition says yes. The intuition of others says no.
An untiring skeptic of almost everything, I wanted to start an internet site where intelligent interchange could occur on issues of teleology. Spurred on by the initiative of others to distribute UMOL DVDs to all Aussie schools, we started an Intelligent Design interest group and launched idnet.com.au to inform those confused by our biased press.
PZ open cut quote mines
PZ has a lot to say. I present some gems below for your education. I’m sure that I have some irrational beliefs of my own. I have no idea what they are. It’s not holding irrational beliefs that makes you an idiot. It’s holding the irrational beliefs and demanding that those be imposed on everyone Read More…
PZ speaks out
PZ has done an interview. I have compiled some statements that interest us here at UD. Here is the first installment. ON ID Host Stephen Smith: “You spend a lot of digital ink, if you will, attacking intelligent design and the people who are behind that movement. They argue that “certain features of the universe and Read More…
Logical flaws responsible for complex evolutionary theory
Non-adaptive origins of interactome complexity NATURE According to the BBC Ford Doolittle said “Darwinists are a little bit like the pre-Darwinists before them, who would have marveled at the perfection of God’s creation. We tend to marvel at the Darwinian perfection of organisms now, saying ‘this must have been highly selected for, it’s a tuned and sophisticated Read More…
Lying for the Spontaneous Generation
Some years ago I read a book called “Lying for God”. It was a systematic emotionally laden deconstruction of YEC. I wondered with disbelief at the time, whether people who are YECs really would knowingly lie to promote their understanding of the world. That was a long time ago, and since then I have frequently Read More…
Optimised hardware compression, The eyes have it.
Image processing is but one of the many very clever design features in our eyes. Mores the pity that many who are focused on the blind spot cannot understand eyes to be Intelligently Designed. The fovea of the eye captures the small section of our visual field where we are looking directly. It is richly replete Read More…
Children of a better god?
I have been listening to a few lectures by Christians who are convinced that the standard models of evolution explain all of biology including life’s origin. They say that evolution also explains all of cosmology. For them, this gives them, the evolutionary creationists, “a better god” than any model that requires a lesser form of “interventionist god”. Read More…
They claimed to be wise
Extracted from the UK Telegraph comes the faith creed of modern scientism. “Evolution by natural selection, and all the other processes that produced our planet and the life on it, are sufficient to explain how we got to be the way we are, given the laws of physics that operate in our universe. However, there Read More…
Cenes and Cnome
Eric Werner of the University of Oxford published a blog piece in PLOS which I have liberally edited below. I think it is an important development in thinking about design in biology. “The chimp really started people wondering if genes can account for the difference between humans and animals. Since the genes of chimps and Read More…
Traipsing into Theology
In a recent PNAS paper John Avise argued that evolution emancipates “religion from the shackles of theodicy” by getting any god off the hook as the source of seemingly cruel design defects in the human genome. Giving a god credit for the good designs, so the story goes, makes that god responsible for the bad Read More…
Short peptides from junk RNA regulate fruitfly development
‘Non-coding’ pieces of RNA can encode short proteins that regulate genes, researchers have found. Various non-coding RNA molecules do not produce protein but either regulate gene expression or carry out other functions in the cell. Many researchers question whether the rest of the apparently non-coding RNA made in cells has any function. Some believe many Read More…
The eyes have it.
I can’t let this one go without posting the reference to the paper generating all the fuss. Retinal glial cells enhance human vision acuity. A. M. Labin and E. N. Ribak Physics Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel “We construct a light-guiding model of the retina outside the fovea, in which Read More…
The Blind leading the Blind.
When you have made a bad call, hold on to it with all your might. From NEW SCIENTIST. The eye was evolution’s great invention 06 May 2010 “Creationists have used the eye to make the “argument from design”. Evolutionary biologists say that the “inside out” vertebrate retina – leaves us with a blind spot – Read More…
Lying for Darwin’s god
Over in Spain, ex priest Francisco J. Ayala is spreading his silly and distorted views about ID. “It is not even a matter of conviction. I am certain that the five or seven scientists (mostly social scientists) on the Discovery Institute’s payroll, do not believe what they say. Creationism (which Ayala obviously conflates with ID) Read More…
Dawkins Down Under
Richard Dawkins on Australian TV waxes lyrical on science and religion, morality, the cross of Christ and the afterlife. SCIENCE AND RELIGION RICHARD DAWKINS: The implication you make is that there’s something about religion which is personal and upon which evidence doesn’t have any bearing. Now, as I scientist I care passionately about the truth. I Read More…