Intelligent Design

More bad news for climate alarmists.    Will the pols still be gullible enough to increase their budgets after all of their climate models are falsified?  Probably.

How do we distinguish systems formed by natural laws, from stochastic processes, and from systems designed by intelligent agents? See Demski’s Explanatory Filter at ARN and at the IDEA Center. Now at Harvard’s Molecular Systems Lab, Peng Yin is currently focused on engineering programmable molecular systems that are inspired by biology, such as the information-directed, self-assembly of nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) structures and devices, and on exploiting such systems to do useful molecular work, such as probing and programming biological processes for imaging and therapeutic applications

“God is an imaginary friend for grownups.” This seems to be one of the materialists’ favorites catch phrases these days.  Last year one group even went so far as to put a version of the phrase on billboards here in Denver. As near as I can tell from my research, the phrase originated in a 2004 Owen Wilson bomb called The Big Bounce.  Wilson’s character Jack is talking to his friend Walter played by Morgan Freeman: Walter:  “Have a little faith.” Jack:  “Faith?  You mean like faith in God?” Walter:  “No, God is an imaginary friend for grownups.” As readers of my posts will know, finding irony is one of my favorite pastimes.  Today we will explore the irony of Read More ›

“Clarence Darrow … is one of my heroes,” Professor Jerry Coyne declares in a recent post over at Why Evolution Is True. I wonder how well Professor Coyne really knows the man whom he idolizes. I’d like to quote from a book titled, Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, published in 1922. Darrow apparently believed that rapists weren’t responsible for their deeds because they were governed by their sex instincts: the poor things simply couldn’t help doing what they did. Here’s what he had to say about rape, in a chapter titled, “Sex Crimes”: Most of the inmates of prisons convicted of sex crimes are the poor and wretched and the plainly defective. Nature, in her determination to Read More ›

Recently, while browsing through the essays of George Orwell – a writer I’ve always admired, even when I disagree with him – I came across one entitled, What is Science? which struck me as both timely and prescient. I’d like to quote a few excerpts, and invite readers to weigh in with their opinions. (Emphases below are mine.) …[T]he word Science is at present used in at least two meanings, and the whole question of scientific education is obscured by the current tendency to dodge from one meaning to the other. Science is generally taken as meaning either (a) the exact sciences, such as chemistry, physics, etc., or (b) a method of thought which obtains verifiable results by reasoning logically Read More ›