When it behaves like Hollywood, it deserves to.
Intelligent Design
Child burial from 80,000 years ago shows the existence of abstract ideas
Perhaps the snail shell with the excisions gave an identity to “Mtoto” — a message to another world, perhaps, about who the child was. As more burials are found, we will start to get more answers. For example, if a number of such graves feature shells or similar objects with excisions, we can infer a symbolic intention.
Off topic: The Cancel Culture ragtag volunteer army of censors
Malicious envy was always out there but before social media it could rarely assemble so large a mob. But that’s a challenge, not a prophecy. We ID types can help fend them off. We are used to fighting Cancel Culture.
Michael Behe on the “purposeful arrangement of parts”
Although Michael Behe, is associated with the concept of irreducible complexity, he now says he prefers to explain ID as “purposeful arrangement of parts.”
At Physical Chemistry Letters: The Perils of Politicizing Science
Cancel Culture: People who could not advance by achievement advance by thinning out the ranks above them by denouncing the societal sins du jour that they can stick on them, truly or falsely. NOT going out on a limb here: Most Cancel Culture types actually wouldn’t care about the same offenses, if practised by people who advance their interests. Mediocrities can’t afford to be that fussy.
At MercatorNet: Hybridizing humans and apes
Sutherland: This crazy talk became crazier still when [Howell S.] England predicted that types of monkeys would be bred with particular human races: orangutans with “humans from the yellow race, gorillas from the black race, chimpanzees from the white race” and gibbons with Jews.
Gunter Bechly vs. Joshua Swamidass at Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable show
Dr Gunter Bechly is a palaeontologist who became convinced that Darwinian evolution cannot explain the fossil record. He debates Intelligent Design with computational biologist Dr Joshua Swamidass who affirms an evolutionary account.
At Vox Popoli: Neo-Darwinism is dead
Or it would be, except for one thing: Neo-Darwinism is a religious tenet of naturalism. It conjures impossible complexities out of inert matter by the magic of belief. Objections such as the ones cited above are evidence of disloyalty to the faith.
That time they invented scientists as well as research papers…
The Googlebot soon found the papers and [fictional] Antkare was credited with 101 papers that had been cited by 101 papers, which propelled him to 21st on Google’s list of the most cited scientists of all time, behind Freud but well ahead of Einstein, and first among computer scientists.
Reflecting on the cancel!ation of Richard Dawkins
Calls for Random House to stop publishing his books? As if he were Michael Behe or something? Clearly, Darwinism is losing its cultural teflon.
Girl’s parents are “two different species”?
Let’s just say, paleontologists need Neanderthals and Denisovans to be “different species.”
Jonathan Bartlett: Intelligent Design Is Not What Most People Think It Is
Bartlett: Thiel shows that the mind has unique powers which are not reducible to mechanism, and that by focusing our efforts in the direction that our minds are specially built for allows us to create more economic prosperity…
Asked at Quillette: Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?
What to think? Well, Darwinism was the original Cancel Culture, as many reading this will know. For many decades, it was difficult or impossible to critique it from any perspective, no matter what the evidence. If social power alone wins, why not Indigenous creationism? Weiss and Springer will be lucky to come out of this with their careers intact.
Can octopuses really feel pain?
The brainy cephalopods behaved about the same as lab rats under similar conditions, raising both neuroscience and ethical issues.
An interview with Bill Dembski at Upper Room
Bill Dembski reflects and summarizes his work in intelligent design (ID), science and culture, and education. Dembski engages with some of the opposing views from his own blind spots and those of others.