This is old news, but I only just learned about it, and I don’t think it was talked about when it happened. In 2006, the Ouachita Parish (i.e., county) School Board decided to allow a “teach the controversy” approach to science education. After the policy was enacted, the science teachers wrote a letter thanking the school board for their decision. Here’s what they said:
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The term “machine learning” has started to be thrown around everywhere. However, I just don’t get excited about it, myself.
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In order to prepare ourselves for the upcoming solar eclipse on Monday, August 21, David Coppedge posted a YouTube video showing the Great Baja Eclipse of 1991 and people’s reactions to it.
I thought I’d let you all know that Jerry Bergman’s latest book, Fossil Forensics: Separating Fact from Fantasy in Paleontology has been holding steady as Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release for several weeks now.
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One of the things that I find interesting from a design perspective is the existence of adaptive systems that don’t presently help them out. That is, they may have cellular response systems which help them in all sorts of scenarios which an ordinary individual is not subject to.
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Dan Graur is on a crusade against ENCODE – the NIH project that is showing that, at least in general, the entire genome is functional. Unfortunately, his commitment to the neo-Darwinian view of mutations is blinding him.
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I was in the server room with my system administrator the other day, discussing how we could cut costs in the server room.
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These are a pair of videos from the AM-Nat Biology conference. I have had lots of other things going on so I’ve been slow getting these up, but Salvador’s talks became more relevant as Dan Graur doubles down to try to prove that the genome is mostly junk. You can get the rest of the talks from the AM-Nat Biology conference (that have been uploaded so far) from here.
Down Graur, a critic of the ENCODE project, has doubled down on his statement that the genome is mostly non-functional. Graur has gone further to state that not only does he think that most of the genome is non-functional, he thinks that he has proven it to be a mathematical certainty.
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A new journal seems to be trying to push Darwinism and eco-feminism on undergrads at Abilene Christian University.
I thought that some of you might be interested in a talk I gave for a local software developer meetup on how theology can aid in building successful software products.
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The book Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies describes how science can be done apart from the assumptions of Naturalism, which are usually assumed by materialists to be part and parcel of science. The book is based on a conference attended by many people in the Intelligent Design community, including several who are regulars on this site.
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Here is the next video from the AM-Nat conference. In this video, Paul Nelson talks about genes that are both taxonomically-restricted (ORFan genes) and essential to the function of organisms. Then he describes the impact of these findings on common descent.
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There has been quite a controversy over the past few years over whether the extended evolutionary synthesis is a replacement of the modern synthesis or a refinement of it.
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The first video release from the AM-Nat Biology conference is now available! In this video, Salvador Cordova talks about the possibility that many things that are commonly considered errors in biology actually have identifiable purposes. Cordova confronts what is both a theological and a scientific critique of design, and shows its limitations. As Sal points out at the beginning of this video, this talk was a special request of mine. Sal has posted on these topics here on UD, but I thought they got less attention than they should, as I think they are really important concepts. If you are interested in the Alternatives to Methodological Naturalism series, you should pick up our book, Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Read More ›