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Video Presentation: Why the Debate Over Intelligent Design Really Matters

I have recently posted a new video presentation on my YouTube channel. In the video I talk about some of the reasons why I think the debate over Intelligent Design and biological origins is of great significance. Aside from just being a fascinating area, it has many implications in several areas of life. This video, Read More…

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New Intelligent Design YouTube Channel

I’ve been writing intermittently about ID for quite a few years now. In the past I have posted some of my articles on this page. Although I haven’t written anything for a good while, I still follow this area very closely. Recently I set up a YouTube channel that I intend to use alongside my Read More…

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Design Disquisitions: Quote of the Month-Robin Collins on Why ID isn’t Science

It’s been a while sorry, but here’s my latest: Quote of the Month: Robin Collins on why ID isn’t a part of science

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Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Sahotra Sarkar

My latest ‘Critic’s Corner’ post is now up. This one features the work of ID critic Sahotra Sarkar. Sarkar is one of the more sophisticated critics of ID so his work is worth engaging with. I have responded to some of his arguments in a previous post and plan to do more in the future: Read More…

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Design Disquisitions: H. Allen Orr on Darwin’s Failure

Did Darwin really explain the origin of species? My quote of the month is now up on my blog. This is an interesting one as it comes from an evolutionary biologist and critic of ID. I also focus on comments of a similar nature that have been made in more recent years. Surprise, Read More…

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Design Disquisitions: Updated YouTube Playlists

For the last year or so I have been accumulating quite a number of YouTube playlists. Recently I’ve been trying to get it a little more organised and cleaned up, so I thought I would point readers to it as a resource. At the moment I have just under 40 individual playlists. I have created Read More…

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Design Disquisitions: On Perry Marshall’s ‘Evolution 2.0’ & Confusions About Design

This week’s article at Design Disquisitions is about Perry Marshall’s ‘Evolution 2.0’ thesis and his criticisms of intelligent design. This article responds to some of his recent writings on his blog and his interaction with Stephen Meyer a few weeks back. Bottom line is, his philosophy of science has significant problems and he has some Read More…

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Design Disquisitions: A Dialogue Between Peter S. Williams & Denis Alexander

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Design Disquisitions: Critic’s Corner-Elliott Sober

Over at Design Disquisitions I have a new ‘Critic’s Corner’ post. This one focusses on the work related to ID and evolution by Elliott Sober, a prominent ID critic and philosopher of science. I’ve always seen Sober as a more sophisticated critic of ID. This will be a handy resource for finding pretty much everything that Read More…

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New ID Blog ‘Design Disquisitions’ Now Online

Back in November of last year, I published a post announcing a new ID blog I was working on. This post is to let UD readers know that I have now put the blog online. Do pop in and have a look around! There isn’t much material to look at yet, though there are a Read More…

ET With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. Without religion... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
kairosfocus Sev, all because Ivermectin clearly works, per population level results . . . try Peru, Mexico, India and Slovakia for... – The slow descent of “Science!” As...
kairosfocus MNY, observations and explanatory models in science are different in nature. The degree of warrant for an observation is naturally... – L&FP, 47: The challenge of "proof"...
Querius Bornagain77 @11 and 12, Thank you for the well-written and fascinating pieces from Weinberg along with your thoughts and those... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
ET Try as they may, Napoleon's people could only tease out so much sugar from the sugar beet. Wm. Dembski is... – ID theorists were right about junk...
Jonathan11 @Robert Sheldon Please tell me you are joking. – ID theorists were right about junk...
mohammadnursyamsu To prove there is water on mars. There is the model of there being water on mars on the one... – L&FP, 47: The challenge of "proof"...
Robert Sheldon We all think we are the first to employ gene editing. This is far from the truth. The Canaanites lived... – ID theorists were right about junk...
doubter I think that another reason for the limited effectiveness and probable difficult tradeoffs involved in gene editing for human enhancement... – ID theorists were right about junk...
ET The ONLY reason there was a pandemic is because the world's population is unhealthy. Most of the deaths were due... – ID theorists were right about junk...
Viola Lee BA quotes Weinberg: "I don’t think one should underestimate the fix we are in. That in the end we will... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
TAMMIE LEE HAYNES Manipulating human genes? Trust the Science Like the Science that gave us the pandemic. (either through incompetence or by evil... – ID theorists were right about junk...
bornagain77 Another place that Steven Weinberg was brutally honest about the weaknesses inherent is his worldview of Atheistic Naturalism is in... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
bornagain77 First, in paying respect to Steven Weinberg, Steven Weinberg often had a brutal honesty about the weaknesses inherent in his... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
Querius Of course you don't have any idea what I'm talking about. All you would have to do is scroll back... – Kirk Durston takes on Larry Krauss...
polistra Makes sense. Old-fashioned breeders, using intentional selection, were able to improve certain qualities of wheat or roses or dogs, but... – ID theorists were right about junk...
TAMMIE LEE HAYNES Dr Weinberg said that the evil in the world came from religious people So let's take Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot,... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
ET 5 million deaths a year caused by global climate related abnormal temps. 4,594,000 from the cold; 489,000 from the heat. – The slow descent of “Science!” As...
asauber It seems like Steven Weinberg was the typical "religion" hater who was religious himself. He just had different gods from... – Steven Weinberg 1933–2021
ET Never trust the WHO. By far more people die from cold than from heat. Only fools think that CO2 is... – The slow descent of “Science!” As...
kairosfocus All you have to do on that is stop sidetracking. This thread is about the concept proof as opposed to... – L&FP, 47: The challenge of "proof"...