Intelligent Design
ID Tattoo Art
The intelligent design movement has passed another milestone — ID tattoo art: As the owner of this art puts it: I’ve found that many conversations regarding design naturally flow from having a constant reminder of design on my arm (as if the fact of my arm and it’s function are not evidence enough :). People at the gym, at church, at work, ask “what is that on your arm!?” My answer naturally leads to irreducible complexity and the argument against Darwin.
Uncommon Decent Contest: List the ten most significant ID books of the last 25 years – judged
Texas school board hearings: Startling gains in the hard science of citation bluffing are now widely noted
Like any member of the tenured entitlement class, University of Texas microbiologist Andy Ellington, is entitled to facts that support his beliefs.
Providing such facts is easier than in the past, thanks to the great gains made by the science of citation bluffing. In “Andy Ellington’s Citation Bluffs and the Scientific Debate Over the Miller-Urey Experiment,” (Evolution News & Views, July 21, 2011), Casey Luskin offers illustrations from his online testimony:
Ellington’s testimony cites a 2008 paper, “A Reassessment of Prebiotic Organic Synthesis in Neutral Planetary Atmospheres,” co-authored by Jeffrey Bada, one of my own professors at UCSD. He claims this paper (herein referred to as Cleaves et al. (2008)) shows “significant amounts of amino acids are produced from neutral gas mixtures.” However, Cleaves et al. (2008) does not show what Ellington claims it does: Read More ›
Soft tissue recovered from an early Cretaceous dinosaur – test of evolution theories?
Soft tissue recovered from an early Cretaceous dinosaur
What if many are indistinguishable from modern lizards? Would that be like fossil rabbits in the Cambrian?
Johan Lindgren et al explain the process in “Microspectroscopic Evidence of Cretaceous Bone Proteins”:
The fossil record is capable of exceptional preservation and occasionally labile and decay-prone tissues, such as skin and melanosomes (color-bearing organelles), are preserved as phosphatized remains or organic residues with a high degree of morphological fidelity [1], [2]. Yet, whether multimillion-year-old fossils harbor original organic components remains controversial [3], [4], and, if they do, a positive identification of these biomolecules is required. Read More ›
Tax dollar alert: Who pays this Texas biology profs salary?
Karl Popper, who never really retracted his dismissal of Darwinism – reflects on “the scientific method”
British Linnaean Society seeks “middle way” on evolution – target 80% of world’s people’s deepest beliefs re afterlife
Which Part of Evolutionary Theory is Self-Evidently Wrong?
Review: God & Stephen Hawking, by John Lennox
Just in: The Large Hadron Collider is NOT the gateway to the multiverse
Parasite Fitness
So you think the multiverse refutes cosmological fine-tuning? Consider Arthur Rubinstein.
“Evolution is governed by a relatively small number of genes”
TheChortle.com on the Cambrian Explosion
Designed to amuse, TheChortle.com has a number of images related to evolution. Here’s one of the more recent: