A Darwinist would say that the accidental tag explains why the illusion of design is so persistent in people’s minds … it is embedded in our cells,
Author: O'Leary
Toronto-based freelance journalist
Thoughts on Stephen Barr’s theistic Darwinism: If God can load the dice so cleverly that no evidence would reveal it …
… why couldn’t he have just created the fossils all at once, to fool us or test our faith?
Continuing major media circulation collapse: Implications for ID
As these behemoths declined in importance …, they grew increasingly easy for partisan interests to capture and completely dominate.
Memo re BioLogos: We are waiting for answers that will likely never come …
ID sympathizers – whatever position we take on religion – agree that it could, in principle, be about facts. That is, there can be actual fine-tuning of the universe, actual irreducible complexity, actual revelation.
Bayesian thinking – and trusting one’s gut
The moment one finds oneself asking, “Could this really be true?” is not usually the moment one has the evidence that it isn’t. It’s the moment when one should feel free to articulate one’s doubts, at least to oneself.
Baboons taught to recognize words? Check the fine print.
In short, they set up a test that did not involve reading for comprehension, then claimed that baboons can recognize words.
Moran’s history of the Darwin vs. design culture wars mostly leaves OUT both ASA and ID?
“entirely absent from Moran’s book, as are, for another example, many of the lead players in the Intelligent Design movement … “
Yes, a Catholic can be a young Earth creationist in good faith
“It comes as a surprise to many Catholics to learn how little the church teaches in this area–how few tenets are established as true beyond doubt, … “
Roger Scruton: “first major outbreak of a new academic disease, which one might call ‘neuroenvy’.”
“It seems to me that aesthetics, criticism, musicology and law are real disciplines, but not sciences. “
Memo to Sal Cordova: Massimo Pigliucci may be in transit
He also doesn’t buy into “consciousness is an illusion.”
Overheard in a coffee shop: Reasons why an African American might go nuts in evolution class
One wonders if Jonatha was hearing some similar outbreak of Darwinized nonsense …
Difference between humans and animals has been identified?
And then there is the question of whether to believe Everett on the evidence and many colleagues clearly do not.
Primate expert offers advice for motherhood – cooperative breeding
If a nuclear family cannot stay together, why would an extended family or an eight-partner child-raising group do so?
Bill Dembski on why ID’s struggle is going to be long and hard
“I can see some liberalizing within the mainstream academy toward strict Darwinism without conceding any ground to ID.”
Question for Barry: Why do people embrace Darwin today, when his cause is actually collapsing in science?
Who in their right mind would be a Darwinist in science today – if they had a free choice – in the face of lateral gene transfer and epigenetics? In “First Things: From Part of the Solution to Part of the Problem,” Barry Arrington tells a familiar story: How media – First Things is his Read More…