DetectingDesign – Uncommon Descent

Darwinism IS a beautiful theory. but then so is astrology

The idea that natural selection acting on random mutation could fill the world with exquisitely complex life forms makes sense to fashionable intellectuals today and it doesn’t happen to be true.

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"...