Intelligent Design
Student’s guide to intelligent design, updated
Seven easy steps to intelligence – like obtain a head or something
Retraction Watch: It’s a good thing someone is looking into all this
Guest Post: Design Detection
Paul Giem provides the following guest post today: The following three pictures were made to represent trays with 560 coins with either white (heads) or black (tails) showing. At least one of them was created by shaking coins and then spreading them out on a table (actually multiple shakes of 20 or so coins) and copying the pattern of heads and tails produced. Which one or ones are they, and why? Were the ones, if any, that were not done by this process designed, and if so by whom, and using what method? 1. 2. 3.
And now for something completely different: The ancient balloon animal
Fine tuning update: Earth-sized does not mean Earth-like, but might mean continued funding
Why RNA is right-handed
A celeb skeptic has a normal experience
Game over for human race? Alternatively, why are these people world’s smartest scientists?
Terry Scambray on Nicholas Wade, Darwin on race, expanded
So there is no longer a language instinct?
Religion And Intelligent Design Theory
The history of science is – of course – full of theories that have been proposed by people with deep religious or philosophical convictions (including materialism). These great minds and others around and after them have often opined about the social, philosophical and religious implications of their scientific discoveries or the discoveries and theories of others. Certain scientific discoveries and theories are often extrapolated into social perspectives and even used to support political agendas. Eugenics, for example, was advocated for and embraced by various Darwinism proponents. Religion has been brought up several times here at UD and there is no home thread for it to be discussed or debated. I thought I’d provide one for those that wish to engage Read More ›