Nobel Laureates urge rejection of intelligent design
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Lawrence Journal-World
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/sep/15/nobel_laureates_urge_rejection_intelligent_design/?breaking

TOPEKA — A group of 38 Nobel Laureates headed by Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel have asked the Kansas State Board of Education to reject science standards that criticize evolution.

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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/15/205441.php

Left to Right: Ellie Crystal, Jon Stewart, Edward Larson, William Dembski

I particularly like this postmortem of last night’s panel on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It’s from the Internet Infidels (you can find more negative reviews of my performance on last night’s panel at talk.origins):

I was majorly disappointed in that The Daily Show chose a panel group format last night in their discussion of evolution. I think more harm than good was dealt to the side of evolution. Read More ›

Looks like Northwestern has entered the evolution wars with an indoctrination minor. Check out this link: http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2005/09/evolution.html.

Oh, the temptations that scientists face: http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,1101810,00.html.

Thanks to a loyal ID supporter, the fledgling corporation conceived on this blog earlier this week, namely, Darwinalia, has now entered the computer gaming industry. Darwinalia’s new game is titled “Panda-Monium.” To play it, go here. A more sophisticated commercial version will be available soon. [UPDATE: Paul Myers has just posted at The Panda’s Thumb a short note about Panda-Monium titled “I think we’re getting under someone’s skin” (go here). Presumably he means my skin. Get a life, Paul. No, I’m not upset with you and the members of your select little club. I’m laughing at you. And I will continue to laugh at you.]

Is it fair to say that the “biologists of the future” to whom Carl Woese is referring will not be Darwinian? The idea of a last common community, with a communally sophisticated biochemistry, raises another question: how did all this evolve? This is for someone else to answer, says Woese. “We don’t understand how to create novelty from scratch – that’s a question for biologists of the future.” http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v427/n6976/full/427674a_fs.html Is it too much to speculate that maybe, just maybe, creating novelty from scratch might be the work of a designing intelligence??

The Hitch Pitch
By Christopher Orlet

… You are a scientist and proponent of Intelligent Design invited onto a comedy show to hawk your new book. The minute you plop down on the sofa the host wags a finger in your face and says, “Tell me why I’m wrong [about Evolution]!” Read More ›

I asked an acquaintance who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and works in the field of paleobiology what will happen to ID? Here is his brief response: I don’t know what will happen with ID but I am sure something will. The persistent stonewalling by the evolutionists is probably helping the ID effort. It is tragic that the debate has become so polarized and politicized.

A Design for Life John Sutherland meets Michael Behe, a leading proponent of intelligent design, the controversial theory that evolution alone cannot explain life’s complexity Go here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1567967,00.html

Here’s an old paper, but one well worth looking at if you haven’t seen it already: “The Spurious Foundations of Genetic Engineering” by Barry Commoner. It goes without saying that the “spurious foundations” here are the same as those for neo-Darwinism.

Historical Development of the Distinction between Bio- and Abiogenesis.
Robert B. Sheldon
NASA/MSFC/NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Dr, Huntsville, AL, USA

ABSTRACT
Early greek philosophers laid the philosophical foundations of the distinction between bio and abiogenesis, when they debated organic and non-organic explanations for natural phenomena. Read More ›

Yesterday, I took part in a panel discussion for Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. Included on the panel with me were Edward Larson and Ellie Crystal. I was (and still am) fighting a stomach virus, so I wasn’t in top form, but we do what we can do. The program will air Wednesday, September 14.

I’m planning a new product line of Darwin paraphernalia — Darwinalia®. The first item is set to go — “Darwin in a Vise” (already advertised on this blog here). Read More ›