Memo to Darrel Falk: Take the ghost of Darwin out and shoot it. Dawn.
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Yes, you can shoot a ghost. It doesn’t affect the ghost, but it sure makes a difference for you. more
Philosopher offers us puzzles on existence vs. non-existence
| May 16, 2012 | Philosophy |
“Let’s call it ‘schmoss.’ Why do we care more about loss of life than schmoss of life?” more
This Paper Discusses Problems With the Evolutionary Tree That You Didn’t Learn in Biology Class
| May 15, 2012 | Intelligent Design |
If only evolutionists would tell the world what they tell each other. In the popular media, in detailed books about evolution and in textbooks a unified front is presented: Evolution is a fact as much as is gravity or the roundness of the Earth. It would be perverse and irrational to conclude otherwise. The scientific… more
9,000!
| May 14, 2012 | Intelligent Design |
The post before this one was UD’s 9,000th. Thank you to all of our readers for your support as we celebrate this milestone. more
Convergence introduces Darwin to Plato
| May 14, 2012 | Intelligent Design |
The phenomenon of convergence has been recognised in external morphology (e.g. the streamlined shape of sharks and porpoises), structural detail (e.g. the camera-like construction of the vertebrate eye and the octopus eye), and in many other functional aspects of organisms (e.g. the echolocation systems used by bats and whales). In textbooks and popular science writing,… more
Fossils of insects pollinating plants from 100 million years ago
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News, Plants |
Given that 80% of today’s flowering plants depend on insect pollination, there must have been a good deal of co-evolution and horizontal gene transfer. more
Anomalous Cambrian creature reconstructed, amazing
| May 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, News |
Some Cambrian animals really do sound like science fiction. more
If you have been an ardent believer in dark matter, revise your expectations, maybe
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“Employing exotic unobservable entities such as dark matter may be an escape from scientific rigor in more ways than one. ” more
Doubts about Darwin spreading into the Brit population?
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Popular culture |
Jones should enjoy her freedom to notice that because it may soon be made clear to her that Darwinism is in fact a source of Really Important Enlightenment to power brokers … more
Kiddie neurosurgeon Ben Carson, evolution, and morality
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News |
“many evolutionists — from Darwin to the present — have argued and are still arguing precisely the point that Dr. Carson was highlighting” more
Wall art discovered from 37,000 years ago
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
“Hundreds of personal ornaments have been discovered, including pierced animal teeth, pierced shells, ivory and soapstone beads, engravings, and paintings on limestone slabs.” more
Darwin in the schools debate revisited in Texas?
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under News, science education |
“Here, politics play a significant role because the State Board of Education is an elected, rather than appointed, body.” more
Evolutionary Informatics Lab- a look inside …
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Informatics, Intelligent Design, News |
Head, Bob Marks, interviewed by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society History Committee. more
Y chromosome durability: AKA secret sex worries of science writers
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Genetics, News |
“Y chromosomes are here to stay, and are not the genetic wasteland that they were once thought to be.” more
Fashionable bashing of “scientism” merely disguises its collision course with reality
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
” … everything is supposed to be weighed and measured even though the human mind that evaluates the results is supposed to be an illusion.” more
James Barham at Best Schools ‘fesses up #6: Biology will finally become a science on a par with physics when …
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Self-Org. Theory |
… when biologists have the same attitude towards Darwin as physicists have towards Galileo and Kepler. more
David Abel: Formalism not only describes, but preceded, prescribed, organized, and continues to govern and predict Physicality.
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
“Chance, necessity and mere constraints cannot steer, program or optimize algorithmic/ computational success to provide desired nontrivial utility.” more
What does Bill Dembski think of David Abel’s “prescriptive information” theory?
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Design inference |
” … at the time, he wouldn’t have anything public to do with me or my ID colleagues, because he wanted to maintain his credibility within the scientific community at large.” more
Deprogramming “neuro”politics in an election year
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“Political beliefs are hugely complex, and can change rapidly and quickly over time.” more
We must pretend there is free will so as to go on using the language of ethics?
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Odds are, given that they don’t really believe in free will, after a while they won’t use the language of ethics and won’t really miss it. more