In replying to my blog entry of June 23, 2005 (go here for my entry and here for Shallit’s response), Jeffrey Shallit has succumbed to the endearing weakness of revising history in his own favor. I’ll respond to him point for point: Read More ›
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 ›
Jewish mathematician David Berlinski, a well-known critic of Darwinism, told Christianity Today, “I thought the uproar was indecent. I am in general appalled but not surprised by the willingness of academics to give up every principle of free speech and honest debate whenever they think they can do so without paying a price.” 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 ›
I appreciate emails like this by ID skeptics who are genuine in their skepticism and see through the sham skepticism of persons who may appropriately be described as secular fundamentalists: Read More ›
Guillermo Gonzalez has issued the following response to the attacks leveled at him following the June showing of the Privileged Planet at the Smithsonian: Read More ›
This just in from a colleague of mine who focuses on the controversy over evolution in the public school science curriculum: Read More ›
Philip Clayton, a professor at the Claremont School of Theology, asked me to contribute an article to The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science that he is editing. He asked me specifically to write on the topic “In Defense of Intelligent Design” for the section titled “Central Theoretical Debates in Religion and Science: Intelligent Design and Its Critics.” Robert Pennock is the other contributor to that section. For my article, go here.
TRIZ (a Russian acronym that is usually translated “theory of inventive problem solving” and is pronounced treez) was developed by Russian scientists and engineers trying to understand technological evolution. I’ve touched on TRIZ’s relevance to ID in a number of my writings (go here, for instance). Some useful sites for understanding TRIZ are the following: Read More ›
Check out the following pps file here (keep clicking to view slide show). Thanks Dennis White!
There are now a number of initiatives nationally in which evolution is being challenged and ID promoted. What would happen if the courts rule against ID, declaring it religion? In the long term, this prospect is of little consequence because the momentum is now with ID and the inertia with evolution. Read More ›