Denyse O'Leary
Invasive species: When environmentalists shove Darwinism under the bus
Are atheists immoral?
Breivik: “According to strict, atheist Darwinism, the purpose of life is to reproduce.”
In “Norway Killer Cultural Christian, Practical Darwinian” (July 24, 2011), we learn from Creation-Evolution Headlines a bit of the background to World News Daily’s bringing the Darwinian leanings of the Norway killer to light: WND first started challenging the depictions of Breivik as a Christian on the 23rd. Then on the 24th, WND posted the entire Breivik manifesto and described him as a Darwinian, not a ‘Christian’ in the usual sense of someone who believes in Jesus Christ the Son of God and submits to Him as Lord and Savior. For example, Support for Darwinian ideas can be seen in several places in his manifesto: While arguing against the feminist destruction of marriage, he said, approvingly, “Marriage is not a Read More ›
Uncommon Descent contest: List the five books that helped ID most – written by non-ID researchers
ID folk have more in common with classical atheists than with “theistic evolutionists”
Marc “monkeys r’ us” Hauser has resigned from Harvard
Circus wagons of evolutionary psychology getting a makeover? Or is the discipline officially kaput?
Darwinism creates nothing except jobs for Darwinists.
From Leonard Krishtalka (July 19, 2011) at LJWORLD (Lawrence, Kansas), we hear the grim news, “Science takes a beating in early presidential campaign”: Referring to candidate Michelle Bachmann’s comments,
“I support intelligent design,” she said, reported CNN. “What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide.”
Krishtalka disagrees, saying,
… knowledge of evolution is an economic necessity. It underpins U.S. and global R&D on the production of the world’s food, fiber, fuel and pharmaceuticals.
How, exactly does it do that?, a friend of Uncommon Descent writes to ask: “Do you have a paper or quote that refutes the ‘teaching more evolution increases the state’s economy” myth? Read More ›
Atheism 2.0 is just religion for goof-offs?
No surprise!! Canada’s government broadcaster loves new atheist Sam Harris
Complexity of earliest animal/plant cell is real. “No tautology at work here.”
Over at Design Matrix, Mike Gene defends the view that “Complex LECA [Last Eukaryoic Common Ancestor] is no tautology”:
Someone with the moniker DrREC replied to my posting about the complexity of the last eukaryotic ancestor as follows:
This is almost a tautology. The last Eukaryotic common ancestor had the defining features of a Eukaryote….which happen to be more complex than prokaryotic life.
He replies:
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Stressed “alpha male” a problem for Darwinian evolution?
This Christian conference is a scandal and a waste of time. Discuss.
Failure produces political correctness, in science and elsewhere
At Ricochet, Claire Berlinski (naughty girl, she is examining the intelligent design controversy as if there was something obvious to know about the universe we live in) says, (June 13, 2011),
What exactly is “political correctness?” Where does this idea come from, historically? What are its effects upon science, government, the public at large? Is it a single thing? How dangerous is it, really?
Depends. Some, who have dealt with PC on the ground, would say to anyone: Are you protected by a bureaucracy? Does your income and social position depend on others being forced to acknowledge you, even though you are useless or destructive to them? Are people expected to bark nonsense that upholds your position, for their own safety?
She adds, Read More ›