Category: Adminstrative
A public service message to our readers
| May 26, 2017 | Posted by News under Adminstrative |
Read the following and then read why it matters to you: From Ed Morrisey at HotAir: The video shows top Planned Parenthood staffers attending meetings of the National Abortion Federation in 2014 and 2015 and it is the latest in a series of over a dozen videos from the organization showing the Planned Parenthood abortion […]
Announcement: Server upgrade, security tag
| February 20, 2017 | Posted by News under Adminstrative |
Some time in the next few days. Apologies for past down time and any near-future upgrade-related down time. We will at that time be introducing our security tag, so that posts will begin with the code https, instead of just http Your patience and generosity are always appreciated. Follow UD News at Twitter!
Would Newton be allowed to teach science in public schools?
| January 29, 2017 | Posted by DLH under academic freedom, Adminstrative, Constitution, Education, Evolution, governance, Intelligent Design, Science, worldview issues/foundations and society |
Sir Isaac Newton once said, “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” The USA’s Founders required the Bill of Rights in the Constitution, including: make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; Yet now we have US Senators coercing government […]
Free papers from Springer, today only
| July 20, 2016 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, News, science education |
From Special Issues in Education, including Research in Science Education. Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista (Just think, one of the biggest Portuguese language blogs is a Brazil-based ID site.)
Gil Dodgen, 12/29/50 to 4/24/16
| July 11, 2016 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Adminstrative, Intelligent Design |
Long time UD contributor Gil Dodgen has died. From here: A small episode from Gil Dodgen’s life might help you understand the sort of person he was: Picture a homeless kitten, lost and confused in Southern California traffic. A man sees her, stops his car in the middle of the street and rescues her, starting […]
Fahrenheit 451 denials of service
| December 22, 2015 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, Intellectual freedom, Media, News |
For reader info, in case it happens when you try to access Uncommon Descent or a page here: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved the use of HTTP status code 451. The code alerts readers when a page has been blocked for legal reasons or censored. The code number was inspired by Fahrenheit […]
Remembering William Provine (1942–2015)
| September 2, 2015 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, News |
Further to the recent announcement of philosopher of biology Will Provine’s passing, here were many fields to which he contributed. With a colleague, he did a most interesting study of evolutionary biologists, 78% of whom he described as pure naturalist atheists like himself. Some of his many reflections on the true meaning of the Darwinism he […]
Service note: Re Twitter:
| May 11, 2015 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, Culture, News |
If you have been in the habit of using Twitter to get notice of new UD News posts, please note that the account was falsely reported for spam. Note: This message from UD News could not be reported on Twitter: Service note: Re Twitter: Account falsely reported for spam.http://is.gd/OqeOCb Falsely reported?: If you signed up, […]
In case you wondered whether the Internet was safe …
| January 20, 2015 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, Intelligent Design, News |
Well, no, but what were you thinking anyway?
Torley’s getting so close to 200,000 …
| July 24, 2014 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, News |
Please folks, no cheating. Only go there if you want to read the post or some of the more recent of the 470 comments.
Quick Question – Captcha Misbehaving?
| April 25, 2014 | Posted by Eric Anderson under Adminstrative |
Quick question: Has anyone else experienced the following: 1. I write a comment and press the “Post Comment” button. 2. I get a complaint that I haven’t properly filled out the Captcha answer. 3. I go back, double check my Captcha answer, and submit again. 4. Again, it refuses. 5. I triple check and submit […]
One experimental ARN/ISCID-like forum, and 2 new experimental creationist blogs
| March 3, 2014 | Posted by scordova under Adminstrative |
There have been some developments that have finally precipitated my decision to start 1 experimental forum and 2 experimental creationist blogs. The most important catalyst for my decision being I got invitation to make presentations to university students for which they can get homework credits for attending, and I needed an internet presence to supplement […]
UD under cyber attack?
| December 28, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Adminstrative |
A lot of premier discussions at UD recently do not bring up google hits, but other sites which reference discussions at UD come up on google. This seems odd and deliberate. I cannot say for sure but this seems suspicious. A comment by fryether (still trapped in the moderation queue, which I have no authority […]
Attention UD Authors regarding UD software and the News Desk
| July 7, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Adminstrative |
I’ve discovered some features of UD software that I wasn’t aware of and may be of help to all the 30 or so UD authors. It has been a pleasure to assist the News desk for the past week while Denyse worked on another project. I now appreciate how time consuming the task is. In […]
UD News away till October 30
| August 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, Intelligent Design |
Needing to finish up a manuscript for Christian Darwinism (Broadman and Holman, 2014), a book co-authored with Bill Dembski …
Service announcement re weird stuff happening: Server upgrade at Uncommon Descent
| September 17, 2011 | Posted by News under Adminstrative, News |
We just had more traffic than server. So starting yesterday, we upgraded.
New Look Coming Soon to Uncommon Descent
| August 13, 2011 | Posted by Jack Cole under Adminstrative |
Tomorrow (Sunday), I will be implementing a new look to the Uncommon Descent website. This will not be an instantaneous process, so there may be a period of time when the site appearance is incomplete. We appreciate your patience in this process.
VJ Torley Asked Me to Post This: “Mathgrrl is Innocent”
| June 28, 2011 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Adminstrative |
In a previous post, I misidentified Mathgrrl with another anonymous contributor to Uncommon Descent, and accused Mathgrrl of making uncivil and ungentlemanly remarks on a certain evolution forum. It now turns out that this identification was incorrect. I would like to apologize to Mathgrrl.
Interest in Intelligent Design is Strong
| September 2, 2009 | Posted by Jack Cole under Adminstrative, Intelligent Design |
We thought the readers here might be interested in knowing a little bit about how much interest is out there for ID. One gauge of that is UD’s traffic. August traffic is at a high for the year with 31,000 more visits than the previous 7-month average (see graph). What is also of interest is […]
Dr. Michael Behe’s New Blog on Uncommon Descent
| August 11, 2009 | Posted by Jack Cole under Adminstrative, Intelligent Design |
With the new technical enhancements behind the scenes on Uncommon Descent, we are now able to add individual blogs. That said, we are happy to announce that the first individual blog we have added is that of Dr. Michael Behe. All of his previous posts from his Amazon blog have been imported to his UD […]
