Intelligent Design

This event might be of interest for some of our UK readers. Yours truly will certainly be there. From here. Topic: Evolution & Global Warming Denial: How the Public is Misled Time: Thursday, September 15 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm Venue: The Walkabout Bar, 128 Renfield St, Glasgow G2 3AL (please note the change). More info: In the US, teachers have long been being pressured to eliminate the teaching of evolution or to teach “alternative views” – meaning creationism. Recently, they also are receiving pressure either to not teach global warming, or to teach “alternative views”, such as that global warming isn’t actually occurring, or that it is not anthropogenic. As with the arguments used by anti-evolutionists, global warming deniers propose Read More ›

Over on the website of the UK Centre for Intelligent Design, Anthony Latham (author of The Naked Emperor: Darwinism Exposed) has an excellent article on a recent review article in Nature on the role of molecular chaperones in protein folding. Latham writes, The journal Nature has just published a detailed and fascinating review about the way proteins in our bodies are helped by other proteins, known as chaperones, to become functional. Proteins are the most complex molecules in our bodies and are involved in virtually all biological processes. Our cells typically manufacture over 10,000 different proteins, synthesised on ribosomes as chains of up to several thousand amino acids. For a protein to function it must fold to its ‘native state’ Read More ›

In an incredible display of irrational thinking, scientists studying the availability of amino acids as life was forming concluded this: “We found that chance alone would be extremely unlikely to pick a set of amino acids that outperforms life’s choice, . . . Here we found a very simple test that begins to show us that life knew exactly what it was doing. This is consistent with the idea that there was natural selection going on.” This type of thinking, wherein “life” is linked to “natural selection” although NS is impossible without life first existing, only demonstrates the degree to which modern scientists have effectively become ‘brainwashed’. It is political correctness come to science. What an incredible quote: “Life knew Read More ›

In “Where We Stand: No Adam, No Eve, No Gospel”(June 6, 2011), Christianity Today, tells us, editorially speaking, “The historical Adam debate won’t be resolved tomorrow, so stay engaged.” It is hard to see why, from their performance, that anyone should stay engaged in whatever they have to say about that. We first noted their “Just up-from-apes” Adam and Eve story in early June. I was heading into the United States with a biophysicist who is a Christian (and has suffered much hatred on that account), and we talked for some time about the problem of Christian “good works” selling out to materialist theory, a problem that greatly concerned him. I wrote about the CT story, and got a swift Read More ›

On a great cruise. Here’s a conference that investigates the nature of time: his conference will bring together leading researchers across a wide range of fields within physics and cosmology, as well as from computer science, complex systems, biology, philosophy, and psychology. The participants will discuss a number of interrelated foundational questions related to the nature of time. – How does time “flow”? – Why does time have a direction? – How does the universe evolve? – What does it mean to record a memory? – What does it mean to perform a computation? – What happens as we think? – How does complexity emerge? – How do organisms age? – How do species and genomes evolve? All perfect thing Read More ›

Matteo writes: “But for too many, the tastiest cake is the one you can have and eat, too. I suppose a lot of folks want just enough determinism to make God an impossibility, but not so much as to make themselves an impossibility.”

Nutty Statistics Professors. Dr. Liddle wrote: “I was taught stats by a somewhat eccentric professor who would fail papers if you gave a p value! He’d return the paper with red ink all over it,saying “DO NOT DO THIS”. And would withhold a pass mark until you’d deleted it.” This put me in mind of my own advanced statistics professor.* Every day he would spend the first 20 minutes of class going on and on about his real passion — the study of paranormal activity. I still groan inwardly thinking it about all these years later. BTW, as much as I pick on her, I really like Dr. Liddle. I may have mistaken her stubborn insistence on sticking to her Read More ›