Culture
Darwinian racism: The other writer who just got dumped from National Review
You want to start your baby out right … with a Darwinian pediatrician …
All the rage now, we hear. In “Darwin’s Pediatricians” (Evolution News & Views, April 19, 2012), Heather Zeiger observes, New Scientist has an interview with Dr. Paul Turke, a “Darwinian” pediatrician. But it turns out, he doesn’t do anything that’s different from physicians known to the UD News desk who are young Earth creationists or Muslims with no use whatever for Darwin. None of these goals requires a Darwinian perspective, and might actually be contrary to some interpretations of Darwinism. They are derived from the Hippocratic tradition, which pre-dates theistic religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. However, the Hippocratic tenets are compatible with Christianity and other theistic religions and have been adapted to those traditions. Dr. Turke can, of Read More ›
Darwinists fall out – Nick Matzke on Jerry Coyne: “ … worrisome if [what] Coyne is pushing became common in scientific journals.”
Bayesian thinking – and trusting one’s gut
Completely uncool type of Darwinism – social Darwinism – hits popular media hard this spring
Fri nite at the movies: Someone has found some Expelled clips not in the film
Gil on what’s at stake in the end — the credibility of science
I passed by and noticed Gil’s go-to-the heart-of-the-matter comment on the “a picture is worth . . . “ thread: The worst part is that these clowns are destroying public trust in legitimate science. As usual, Gil has gone straight to the key point. When science and science education as well as popular science and science-related journalism are ideologised and made into little more than agenda talking points, sooner or later, science is going to pay the price for the ideologues we can see dressing themselves up in the holy lab coat and demanding genuflection before their favourite myths. (And of course, predictably, they will try to twist the issue about, and accuse those who challenge them of being “anti Read More ›
Shoehorning Darwin into an otherwise legitimate history of a science movement
It was only a matter of time now, but ID-friendly US prez hopeful is suspending his campaign
The ID research tank, Biologic Institute, now has a Facebook page
Followup: Mark Steyn on Derb’s unscheduled departure from NR …
Why some black people hate Darwinism – another one for the files
Atheist activist suing the county Christmas nativity scene … becomes a Christian
“It’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming!” — Nobel Prize holder Charles Townes on design thought and anti-evolutionism, in light of Michael Shermer in Sci Am on “the standard scientific theory” of evolution
What on earth does the title of a famous Good Friday Sermon have to do with the ID controversy? (Even, come Easter Sunday morning . . . ) A lot. Sadly. As I was reading and thinking about Dr Torley’s latest amazing UD series and some of UD’s ever so fascinating comments [one of the best features of UD is comments], I was led to look at the Dr Townes story, and related matters. One of the findings is how Dr Townes, a Nobel Prize holder for physics, turns out to be a cosmological design thinker who actually supports intelligent design in an evolutionary framework [i.e. pretty similar to Wallace, co-founder of modern evolutionary theory], but sees ID as anti-evolutionism. Read More ›