Over the years, I’ve learned a few things that may usefully be imparted to bright and budding ID theorists. The lesson I’m about to impart is one I adverted to in my paper “Dealing with the Backlash against Intelligent Design” on my designinference.com website. Read More ›

Thanks Bombadill for alerting me to this photo (that’s Richard Dawkins on the left, Steve Aldrich on the right). To view all the festivities of the 2004 Center for Inquiry cruise, go here. Imagine someone putting a gun to your head and forcing you to go on this cruise. Imagine you died and woke up in hell. But I repeat myself.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND
Royal Society Alert 390
8 September, 2005

INTELLIGENT DESIGN?
Comment by Royal Society Education Manager, Peter Spratt, Peter.Spratt@rsnz.org
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Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 18:33:29 -0700
From: idurc.org
To: General
Subject: Press Release

The Intelligent Design Undergraduate Research Center is proud to announce the first-ever Graduate Awards to two of its most respected members. Their names are being deliberately withheld. Read More ›

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-brooks27aug27,0,2588441.story

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From a colleague in Italy: In October an article will appear in the important scientific magazine Le Scienze: “Intelligent design: il creazionismo evoluto”. A first Italian presentation of ID will be made by … surprise … H. Allen Orr! You know who Orr is so imagine what Orr will can tell Italians about ID.

I’m supposed to be appearing with Edward Larson in the closing segment of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show this Monday, September 12th.

From: keagle@acton.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:55 AM
To: snip
Subject: 2005 Acton Essay Competition

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ID-critic Chris Mooney’s latest book, The Republican War on Science, is now available: http://www.waronscience.com/home.php. [UPDATE:] For more on Mooney, go here.

Australian cardinal comfortable with Intelligent Design
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=39416

Sydney, Sep. 05 (CWNews.com) – Cardinal Pell told The Australian that although the theory of evolution can be reconciled with Christian doctrine, sometimes evolution is presented “in an anti-God way.” Where that is the case, he said, “I’d be happy for them to talk about design or intelligent design.” Read More ›

Stem cell hopes distorted by ‘arrogance and spin’
Tim Radford, science editor
Monday September 5, 2005

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As someone who actually has been censored and had his academic freedom violated (go here), I find it more than a little ironic that the evolution diehards at talk.origins and the Panda’s Thumb continually moan about my “censoring” them at this blog. When I was hired at Baylor University, that academic appointment came with certain privileges and rights which, in my case, were indeed violated. When it comes to this blog, on the other hand, I pay the bills and have no obligation to anyone. The issue is not “censorship” but “freedom of association.” The Internet is a big place and you are free to whine on it, only not here.