Gray Lady down: Britain’s Daily Mail Web site outpaces New York Times’?
| January 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Media |
The new media landscape will be full of upsets like this, and an obvious question around here is how will that affect ID. more
It’s all about information, Professor Feser
| January 29, 2012 | Intelligent Design |
Over at his blog, Professor Edward Feser has been writing a multi-part critique of Professor Alex Rosenberg’s bestselling book, The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions. Rosenberg is an unabashed defender of scientism, an all-out reductionist who doesn’t believe in a “self”, doesn’t believe we have thoughts that are genuinely about anything, and… more
Bill Dembski: Trouble happens when they find out you mean business
| January 27, 2012 | Christian Darwinism, Culture |
For many Christian academics, the worst news possible is that the atheists they are discreetly selling out to don’t have the goods anyway. more
Church-Burning Video Used to Promote Atheist Event
| January 27, 2012 | Atheism |
Here’s another delightful offering from the compassionate, tolerant, inclusive, diversity-promoting atheist community. As usual, it includes a plug for “evolution.” …the lineup includes atheist speakers, a rapper who raps about evolution and a “kiddy pool” where boys and girls will be able to scientifically walk on water. There will also be a number of bands… more
Is intelligence inherited? Jane North and Jane South take the state IQ test.
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, Mind, News |
The “it’s-in-the-genes” approach to genetic inheritance overlooks the fact that an inheritance of any kind is an opportunity, not a prophecy. more
What is Bill Dembski planning to do now?
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
“This will allow me to redouble my efforts at developing ID’s scientific research program.” more
Human intelligence diminishes in group tasks?
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, News |
“Our study highlights the unexpected and dramatic consequences even subtle social signals in group settings may have on individual cognitive functioning.” more
Psychologists slam TV program: Association of brain’s amygdala and fear has gone to far
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“It also activates at other times, for example in response to pleasant photographs and happy faces.” more
Study: Religion helps people gain self-control
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, News, Religion |
“Until now, I believed religion was a matter of faith; people had little ‘practical’ use for religion,” more
What the Darwinist understands by beauty
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
In a cartoon more
Teaching evolution as an act of faith in Darwinism: Why that ol’ “gut feeling” matters so much
| January 29, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design, News |
Essentially, as forced on students in school, “evolution” has about the same teaching value as hip hop, Star Trek,, self-esteem courses, The Lord of the Rings, or teen vampire films. The thing either grabs your gut or it doesn’t. more
New atheist standard-bearer: Why it’s okay to be rude to religious people ….
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Darwinism, News |
Maybe Dennett is assuming his readers are too sophisticated to know any reason to doubt him. more
Blind Mole is iridescent, just because the design worked out that way
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News |
The theory has been that iridescent colours should attract a mate, but … more
Where materialism fails: Grappling with the power of exceptional minds
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under language, News |
The reviewer doesn’t convey a sense that the author grapples with the origin of the mental capacity for learning many languages, beyond identifying prompts whose value depends on an undiscovered country. more
Is intelligence inherited? Does the race really go to the swift?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Education, News |
One troubling aspect of Charles Murray’s thesis is that he believes that intelligence is, generally, inherited. more
Education Reform: It’s the Culture, Stupid!
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Education, News |
“The education-reform debate in this country has a surreal quality to it.” more
Creationism to be taught in Indiana science classes?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, science education |
What a pity they didn’t mention “self-organization theory”! Then we could get James Shapiro up on the stand in the subsequent court case, to find out just how, exactly, it works. more
The creation of the dumb dinosaur – a work of contemporary journalism?
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, News |
The journalist imbibes, with his draft of lager, a Darwinist worldview in which there is some kind of “ascent” over time of nesting creatures, from less care to more care? Is there? more
Shermer vs. Flannery debate: Shermer actually conceded that Wallace, Darwin’s co-theorist, was a design pioneer
| January 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
When Darwin’s lobby needed to denigrate Wallace, in order to support Darwin, they made his ID-type commitments explicit. Now, with ID’s greater cultural confidence, they need to confuse and efface them. more