Darwinism
Is “human biodiversity studies” another name for racism?
Deprogramming from the dead tree media’s worldview – one adverb at a time
Ann Coulter: The demand that US prez hopefuls profess faith in Darwin is “flash mob method of scientific inquiry”
Richard Dawkins’ basic problem is with a democratic process, period
Finally some straight talk: Serious evolution is NOT happening just because small changes are noted vs. last decade
Evolution And Probabilities: A Response to Jason Rosenhouse
I recently published an article on Uncommon Descent on the value of probabilistic arguments in the evolution debate. Mathematician and ScienceBlogs contributor Jason Rosenhouse has since responded with a rebuttal on his blog. Here, I offer a brief response. Rosenhouse writes, Jonathan M. is completely confused about what the issue is. Pigliucci certainly never claimed that biologists are not interested in evaluating probabilistic feasibility (whatever that even means). He said simply that evolutionary biologists do not assign probabilities to specific events in the way that ID folks would like. For example, Jonathan M. points to a calculation in which biologist Sean Carroll estimated the probability of obtaining the same mutation four times independently in different orders of birds. In such Read More ›
A friend has ended up writing proposed copy for Pop Science TV, just because of Uncommon Descent …
Update from botanist on the plants that ate Darwin
Mike Behe on a new journal paper admitting that Darwinian evolution can’t do complex systems
Christianity Today: So clueless. So why?
In “Where We Stand: No Adam, No Eve, No Gospel”(June 6, 2011), Christianity Today, tells us, editorially speaking, “The historical Adam debate won’t be resolved tomorrow, so stay engaged.” It is hard to see why, from their performance, that anyone should stay engaged in whatever they have to say about that. We first noted their “Just up-from-apes” Adam and Eve story in early June. I was heading into the United States with a biophysicist who is a Christian (and has suffered much hatred on that account), and we talked for some time about the problem of Christian “good works” selling out to materialist theory, a problem that greatly concerned him. I wrote about the CT story, and got a swift Read More ›
US Prez hopeful Perry is not useful to ID?
Says political theorist John West here: Earlier this summer, Perry’s education commissioner recommended for use supplementary science curricula that fail to offer any critical analysis of Darwinian claims, contrary to the state’s own science standards. At the same time, Perry’s education commissioner allowed his staff to spike the one proposed curriculum that did try to follow the Texas science standards. Presumably, he thinks everyone who supports him is dumb as a post. More on him here. West thinks Bachmann is sincere, by contrast, based on her record in Minnesota. More on her here.