Did ID-friendly Rick Santorum win the Florida US prez hopeful debate?

” … he definitely made a very serious case that he might be the best Not Romney in the race.” more



A multiverse of multiverses: If everything can be true, nothing is

In a real world, some series can be infinite regresses, but others are not. more

The Splendors of the Multiverse

In a comment to this post dmullenix writes:  “What happened before the Big Bang? The multiverse already existed, it just hadn’t created this particular universe yet. What about space and time? No problem, they’re a part of the universe and came into existence when it did. . . we know that this universe came into… more

How dare you appeal to . . . conscious agents in science!

Sometimes, comments at UD can be quite revealing. Jan 25, AIG objected in the Shermer/Flannery Wallace debate thread in an inadvertently revealing way, which I have picked up: ___________ >>AIG: Re: questions of how, why, and “who” (the names of people involved [at Stonehenge etc]?) are secondary. We know that human beings were present at… more

ID Foundations 15 (b): Front-loading as a testable hypothesis cont’d — a guest post by Genomicus

Genomicus continues his presentation of the front-loading hypothesis: ___________ Geno: >>In my previous article on the subject of front-loading, I described the front-loading hypothesis and what it proposes. I outlined three testable predictions generated by the front-loading hypothesis. In this article, we’ll see how the front-loading hypothesis can lead us to numerous research questions, and… more

What our moral and intellectual superiors want for us #3223: Using religion to create “nice neighbours”

Can’t society get to where De Botton wants it to go without plundering religion? He argues not: … Religions, he thinks, have the buttons and know how to use them. more

Elephant’s extra “toe”: Another “vestigial organ” bites the dust – in this case, literally

“Over the years its purpose or lack of purpose has been debated.” more

Jerry Coyne won’t meet Moshe Averick to discuss the origin of life puzzle – but turns out he’s just as puzzled … .

” … we don’t know how life started and it’s a really thorny problem because nobody was there …” more

Flannery replies to Shermer on Wallace: Wallace’s World of Life “was written largely to demonstrate that evolution is not blind but intelligent”

“In an interview with the Daily Chronicle Wallace declared unequivocally, ‘Materialism is as dead as priestcraft for all intelligent minds.’” more

Astrophysicist: Super Earths are more attractive to life than Earth is

“These are solid planets of rock and ice between 1 and 10 times the mass of the Earth. ” more

Dogs could have come from different groups of ancestors: Researchers

“The two earliest incipient dogs from Western Europe (Goyet, Belguim) and Siberia (Razboinichya), separated by thousands of kilometers, show that dog domestication was multiregional, and thus had no single place of origin … and subsequent spread.” more

More evidence that dinobird icon Archaeopteryx could fly?

” … modern wing feathers had evolved as early as 150 million years ago in the Jurassic period.” more

Berlinski on the Big Bang: “How would knowing more mathematics help, I wonder?”

“To ask for the time that time began is a little like asking for the length of length. ” more

Why does the climate change lobby want the Darwin lobby on board?

NCSE’s pass into publicly funded schools, due to court decisions, is valuable – isn’t that the product their new, well-heeled “climate change” funders are really buying? more

Dembski replies to Shapiro: “Natural genetic engineering” is just magic, by another name. Can you make it science?

“For him, natural genetic engineering is a magic phrase, a label, that he attaches to hypothesized processes that are opaque to him and yet that he claims result in evolutionary novelty.” more

Peer review: Both authors and ghostwriters liable for fraud, in ghostwritten medical articles?

Shape of things to come elsewhere? more

Philosopher: How Shermer is pulling a fast one in his debate with Flannery on Wallace

“Shermer and his like … first deny metaphysics and then ask questions answerable only by metaphysics. … The only solution is to show that they cheat.” more

Darwinist Jerry Coyne refuses to discuss origin of life in person with maverick rabbi; claims he oppresses women

By the way, James Shapiro, currently sparring with the ID theorists, admits that origin of life is still on the fringe of science. more

Neanderthals engineered their tools?

It’s amazing how much Neanderthals have learned in the last three decades. more

The Big Picture: 56 minutes that may change your life

Professor John C. Walton is a scientist who holds not one but two doctorates. He is a Research Professor of Chemistry at St. Andrews University, and he is a Chartered Chemist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In a recent talk… more

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