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Podcasts in the intelligent design controversy, with brief comments

1. The Positive Case for Intelligent Design Listen here. What exactly is the positive argument for intelligent design? This episode of ID the Future is taken from a recent lecture on intelligent design given by Casey Luskin. Because of the way the media misrepresents the issue, even those who may be predisposed to support ID don’t Read More…

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Podcasts in the intelligent design controversy

Abuses of Power in Science: An Interview With Darwin Skeptic David Berlinski Mathematician and novelist Berlinski, interviewed here, is always fun. His Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its scientific pretensions is both sharp and funny. As a secular Jew, he is not arguing for religion, but rather making the point that science is not atheism’s best Read More…

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Podcasts in the intelligent design controversy, with comments

1. I see where Ladd Allen, producer of the Privileged Planet DVD that caused such a ruckus when it was shown at the Smithsonian in 2005, has now come out with Darwin’s Dilemma. Darwin’s Dilemma presumably references the sudden Cambrian explosion of complex, multicellular life forms, including vertebrates, the creatures most likely to have intelligence, Read More…

jerry I am posting the transcription of the lecture on Cicero on another OP because it is extremely long. Anyone wanting... – Should we recognise that "laws of...
jerry This is placed here because some may be interested and it too long for the current thread. It is about... – Michael Ruse update: “Morality is just...
kairosfocus VL, behind a planar, front-silvered mirror lies a virtual half universe with images laterally reversed and set back the same... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
Fasteddious Note that Loeb is using ID arguments in this piece, although I'm sure he would deny it: - take a... – Avi Loeb at Scientific American on...
Fasteddious Thank you Polistra, that was great - my laugh for the day! – The “smaller game” theory of the...
Viola Lee Also, Kf's picture above shows how you transform a secant line (cutting the curve at two points) into a tangent... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
Viola Lee You're right, Steve. The problem didn't say specifically that it was a semicircle. I written lots of geometry problems, and... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
PaV If the definition of a circle is x^2 + y^2 = R^2, but the definition of a right angle, per... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
kairosfocus SA2, the physical confirmation rests on the laws of reflection, i.e. incident, reflected ray and normal to plane of reflection... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
Steve Alten2 I will definitely defer to you and Viola Lee on this. – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
kairosfocus SA2, it is both implied and visually recognisable. KF PS: The mirror test will show it instantly. PPS: Using a... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
bornagain77 And since Intelligent Design is mathematically based on the ‘law of conservation of information’, that makes Intelligent Design, unlike Darwinian... – The Bee stings again: 7 ways...
asauber Speaking of hostility... I think Seversky should look into some Anger Management sessions. Andrew – The Bee stings again: 7 ways...
bornagain77 Seversky goes off into his Darwinian dream world again and claims, "Darwin’s theory and the work that led up to... – The Bee stings again: 7 ways...
Steve Alten2 Kairosfocus, thank you for the visual. However, I hear terms like circumference, diameter and radius being used to describe the... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
kairosfocus SA2, the easiest answer is a physical one. Take a small, flat, preferably front silvered mirror though practically a back... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
Steve Alten2 Viola Lee, forgive me for possibly being dense. I admit that any radius that intersects a tangent of a circle... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
Seversky Bornagain77/5 One final question for atheists here on UD,,,, since your entire Darwinian worldview turns out to be vitally dependent... – The Bee stings again: 7 ways...
Seversky Bornagain77/1 The biggest lie told in science today is that science and religion, particularly Christianity, are at ‘war’ with each... – The Bee stings again: 7 ways...
Viola Lee Steve, you just draw it perpendicular to the radius at that point. The fact that the semicircle doesn't continue on... – Semi-circles and right angle dilemmas ....
Lieutenant Commander Data William J Murray However, since my arguments and counter-arguments are about logic and evidence (to the degree “evidence” can be... – Should we recognise that "laws of...