After cleaning house on Wednesday of this week by firing David Jeffrey as provost, Baylor’s interim president Bill Underwood called a pep rally of all Baylor faculty and staff on Thursday (see the story below). There he remarked: “Baylor University can be the most exciting university to study at, to teach at, to conduct research Read More…
Education
Housecleaning at Baylor
Just so there’s no doubt regarding the following story, to say that the provost was replaced is to say that he was fired. What does this portend for Baylor? The signs are not good if the aim is to see Baylor become a university that is Christian in more than just name. Sloan and Jeffrey Read More…
Take a cruise with Dan Dennett, Susan Blackmore, Paul Kurtz, etc.
The Center for Inquiry, a leading skeptic society, is putting together a “dream cruise” December 10-17, 2005. Imagine with me putting a dozen extremely bright, ID-enthusiastic, street-witnessing Jesus-freak undergrads on this boat and letting them pass out tracts, ask tough questions during lectures, and engage in assorted mayhem. Ah, if only I had millions…. I Read More…
ID and the Charge of Fundamentalism
Baylor’s eclectic approach to gathering faith-and-learning resources meant they sometimes failed to screen out the culturally militant elements of evangelicalism. In a head-shaking blunder, Sloan’s team put William Dembskiâ€â€point man for the Intelligent Design movementâ€â€in charge of a new science-and-religion center. It’s hard to imagine any step that would have been more effective in convincing skeptical faculty that Sloan was turning Baylor over to the fundamentalists.
Dutch Cabinet Supports Discussion of ID
According to the Prime Minister there are a sufficient number of scientists who have a special interest in this area.
“Students who cannot handle scientific challenges to their faith should seek guidance from a theologian, not a scientist.”
Advocates of ID pretend to use scientific methods to support their religious preconceptions.
Powers of Ten
Have a look at the video at the following site: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html. Is there any design-theoretic significance that on a logarithmic size-scale, we’re close to the middle of the known physical universe? Regardless of the answer to this question or whether there even is an answer, you’re in for a treat if you haven’t seen such Read More…
Sorry, kids, but you’re just too stupid
The only reason for raising such questions before state education authorities is not to deepen the scientific understanding of teenagers but rather to sow deliberate confusion.
ASA on ID and Evolution
Scientific criticism of evolution should not be muted for fear of being labeled a creationist.
Neither Matter Nor Magic But Mind
The key is to understand that the nature-supernature distinction poses a false dilemma. There is a third option.
Kansas School Board to Decide over Definition of Science
Check out the following stories at MSNBC and World Magazine: go here and here respectively.
This Has Got to Be Disheartening to Darwinists
Which statements reflect your views on the origin of human beings? 1. We evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, and God did not directly guide this process. 2. We evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, but God guided this process. 3. God created us in our present Read More…
A Brave Editor’s Note
In the eye of the Brazilian Darwinian hurricane
Ruse, Wells, and Morris (John) on CNN with Lou Dobbs, May 12, 2005
DOBBS: New York, Kansas, and several other states are considering controversial proposals that would change the way our children learn about the creation of human beings, the earth and our universe. A relatively new theory, called intelligent design, suggests that Darwin’s theory of evolution can’t explain the existence of every life form on earth. Those Read More…
NSTA backs intelligent design (into a corner)
NSTA strongly supports the position that evolution is a major unifying concept in science and should be included in the K-12 science education frameworks and curricula.