Four Opinions on the Hearing in the Sunday KC Star Posted on Sun, May. 08, 2005
Evolution
Dembski on ABC Nightline / Meyer on CNBC Sunday
An ABC producer confirmed with me yesterday afternoon that I’m supposed to appear on Nightline this Monday (5.9.05). Steve Meyer is scheduled to debate Ken Miller on CNBC Sunday (5.8.05).
Kansas Hearings: Scopes in Reverse? — Yes and No
I’m waiting for the day when the hearings are not voluntary but involve subpoenas in which evolutionists are deposed at length on their views. On that happy day, I can assure you that they won’t come off looking well.
2009: Origin of Species Sesquicentennial
Possible conference titles that come to mind are “Darwinism Transcended,” “Darwin’s Dead Idea,” “Evolution: The Illusion of a Possibility,” “Darwinism Devolving,” and “Evolution: The Senescent Years.”
Evolution: Vast Ignorance and Trifling Understanding
Darwinists want us to think that they have vast understanding and only trifling ignorance when in fact they suffer vast ignorance and trifling understanding.
Back to the Quote Mines
the usual reaction from evolutionists, for whom justifying evolution means supplying enough words and irrelevant details to cover their ignorance
Richard Dawkins — God’s Best Gift to ID
Why should evolution be the best justification for atheism?
Evolutionary Wars (Today’s Boston Globe)
If Bush gets one or two more Supreme Court Justices, we’ll have Intelligent Design in the classroom.
Kansas IV — Care to weigh in?
The Kansas State Board of Education will hear from scientists and scholars next week about how best to present evolution in the classroom. If you are not testifying to the board, there is still a significant role for you to play in the wider debate. Namely, write supportive letters to the editor to appear during Read More…
ID in 28Apr05 Issue of Nature
Scientists know that natural selection can explain the awe-inspiring complexities of organisms, and should be prepared to explain how. But attacking or dismissing intelligent design is likely to aggravate the rift between science and faith that causes students to become interested in intelligent design in the first place.
Kansas III — Kansas State School Board Hearings
From a colleague: A 3-member Committee of The Kansas State School Board will conduct hearings in Topeka next week, and possibly the week after, to evaluate proposed changes to the state science standards. Thursday through Saturday next week, May 5-7, the Committee will hear testimony from scientists, philosophers and educators who think the standards should Read More…
Kansas II — A Pathetic Plea
…the very foundation of science in the United States is at risk…
Kansas I — “Land of the Born Again Boneheads”
Their simple, idiotic credulity as a populace would have been the envy of Lenin. That is the tragic paradox. The Land of the Free, telly and burgerfed, has become the Land of the Credulous Moron.
Kingsolvers Diverge Over Natural Selection
One of my favorite over-the-top quotes about the power of natural selection comes from novelist Barbara Kingsolver. According to her, natural selection is “the greatest, simplest, most elegant logical construct ever to dawn across our curiosity about the workings of natural life. It is inarguable, and it explains everything.†(Small Wonder, 2002). Another Kingsolver, however, Read More…
Pope Benedict XVI’s Inaugural Mass
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.