Did ID-friendly Rick Santorum win the Florida US prez hopeful debate?
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, News |
” … 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
| January 27, 2012 | Multiverse |
In a real world, some series can be infinite regresses, but others are not. more
The Splendors of the Multiverse
| January 27, 2012 | Intelligent Design |
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!
| January 27, 2012 | ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy, Science, worldview issues and society |
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
| January 26, 2012 | Cell biology, ID Foundations |
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”
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Philosophy |
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
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Design inference, News |
“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 … .
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Origin Of Life |
” … 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”
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“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
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Extraterrestrial life, News |
“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
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, News |
“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?
| January 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, News |
” … 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?”
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Mathematics, Philosophy |
“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?
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Climate change, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News |
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?
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Self-Org. Theory |
“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?
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Peer review |
Shape of things to come elsewhere? more
Philosopher: How Shermer is pulling a fast one in his debate with Flannery on Wallace
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy |
“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
| January 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Origin Of Life |
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?
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, News |
It’s amazing how much Neanderthals have learned in the last three decades. more
The Big Picture: 56 minutes that may change your life
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by vjtorley under Intelligent Design |
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