Teaching the Controversy vs. Teaching ID
This just in from a colleague of mine who focuses on the controversy over evolution in the public school science curriculum: Read More ›
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Steinfels on Ruse in the NYTimes
Paul McHugh in the Weekly Standard
To Explain the Flagellum — Just Look Up All the Homologies
There’s an interesting exchange tucked away in some comments at the Pandasthumb on what it would take to provide an evolutionary explanation of the bacterial flagellum: Read More ›
Slumming Among the Darwhiners
American Spectator Defends ID
The Little Engine That Could… Undo Darwinism
By Dan Peterson
What critics of Intelligent Design theory can’t accept is that its proponents are making scientific, fact-based arguments.
The American Spectator, June 2005 Read More ›
Ken Keller contra ID
Today’s Washington Post Article on Phil Johnson
Doubting Rationalist
‘Intelligent Design’ Proponent Phillip Johnson, and How He Came to Be
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/14/AR2005051401222_pf.html
By Michael Powell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 15, 2005; D01
Legitimizing a Thoughtful Form of Anthropomorphism
Here’s an interesting piece in Nature about the possibility that anthropomorphism might still have some place in the natural sciences. Given the reductionism of the present age, such a move is both radical and atavistic, hearkening back the old notions of scala natura and humans as microcosms reflecting in miniature the truth of the macrocosm. Read More ›
Ruse, Wells, and Morris (John) on CNN with Lou Dobbs, May 12, 2005
DOBBS: New York, Kansas, and several other states are considering controversial proposals that would change the way our children learn about the creation of human beings, the earth and our universe. A relatively new theory, called intelligent design, suggests that Darwin’s theory of evolution can’t explain the existence of every life form on earth. Those who support intelligent design believe a higher being must have played some role. Now, proponents of intelligent design want evolution to be challenged in our classrooms. Read More ›
ID in 28Apr05 Issue of Nature
Pope Benedict XVI’s Inaugural Mass
Emergence of Biological Complexity — Cambridge Templeton Consortium
Yesterday’s Nature has, on page 24 of the advertisement section, an announcement requesting grant proposals for the John Templeton Foundation’s “Purpose in the living world” research programme, titled “The Emergence of Biological Complexity” (for more go here and here). Purpose? Biological complexity? Evidence of fine-tuning in biological complexity? All in one breath? This may not be full-fledged ID, but it certainly isn’t “the literal interpretation of Darwin.”