Evolution

The Protein Society’s upcoming big annual meeting (July 30 to August 3, 2005) has a session that should give proponents of unintelligent evolution pause and proponents of intelligent design courage: Read More ›

Signs of Intelligence?
What the neo-Darwinists don’t understand about theories of Intelligent Design
by Isaac Constantine
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The charge is often made that ID constitutes an argument from ignorance (a charge I’ve shown to be false here). But a case can be made that conventional evolutionary theory, insofar as it tries to explain macroevolutionary changes, itself constitutes an argument from ignorance. In Gary Jason’s book Critical Thinking (p. 133), he characterizes the argument from ignorance as follows: Read More ›

Yes, Roger Ebert, the movie reviewer, has now weighed in on ID — and in a review of The War of the Worlds, no less: Read More ›

Discovery Institute Files Public Records Request in OSU Evolution Academic Freedom Case

SEATTLE – Discovery Institute has filed a public records request with the Ohio State University (OSU) seeking all documents related to Darwinist attacks on OSU doctoral candidate Bryan Leonard. The request was submitted under the Ohio Public Records Act. Read More ›

Leading Cardinal Redefines Church’s View on Evolution
By CORNELIA DEAN and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
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Cardinal Schönborn’s oped today in the NYTimes is one of the first signs that the Catholic Church under Pope Benedict XVI is going to be repudiating neo-Darwinism and supporting ID. Schönborn is both a close personal friend of the pope and philosophically on the same page with him. See also Mike Behe’s comments about this oped (go here).

The New Republic asked the opinions of prominent conservatives on evolution and ID. Read More ›

For more than three decades, molecular evolutionists have thought that no matter how many genetic mutations show up on a specific gene, whether or not those mutations become fixed in the species is determined primarily by natural selection. The new study shows that the speed at which these new mutations arrive also affects whether the mutations become fixed. MORE

Of all the professional wrestling moves, the piledriver most profoundly signifies how I conceive of the relation between ID and Darwin’s legacy. Think of the following image, therefore, as a metaphor of the ID movement: Read More ›

Massimo Pigliucci, in the past one of my more extreme critics (e.g., go here and here), is now trying to put a softer face on his skepticism and atheism. He admits that on three matters relevant to the ID debate, he has changed his mind. I’ll leave it to you to decide if these changes indicate also a change of heart. Go here.

It must be true — I read it in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/science/05essa.html?

Earlier on this blog, DaveScot cited Michael Shermer’s account of the Word Summit on Evolution that took place in the Galapagos Islands last month (go here for Shermer’s account in the Scientific American). TomG then raised the following question (for the thread in which he did so, go here): Read More ›