Monthly Archives: May 2005
To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists
| May 23, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution |
Biologists have often thought about evolution in the same way many think about death and taxes — something inevitable. But Romesberg is a chemist, and he found himself asking not only how, but why evolution happens. more
Christianity Today’s 2005 Book Awards
| May 22, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
Two ID books were selected among Christianity Today’s 2005 Book Awards: in the category of Apologetics/Evangelism, Lee Strobel’s The Case for a Creator; in the category Christianity & Culture, my book The Design Revolution (another of my books Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology received that same award in 2000). Awards like this… more
Dawkins on Kansas in the London Times
| May 21, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
“intelligent design theory†(ID) … its propagandists are slick, superficially plausible and, above all, well financed. more
Sorry, kids, but you’re just too stupid
| May 21, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
The only reason for raising such questions before state education authorities is not to deepen the scientific understanding of teenagers but rather to sow deliberate confusion. more
Letters following up on Nature’s recent ID feature
| May 21, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
to be effective in its support, the scientific community needs to understand the empirical claims of ID more
Springsteen vs. Dylan
| May 20, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution |
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway Five
Judge says to the High Sheriff,
“I want him dead or alive
Either one, I don’t care.” more
ASA on ID and Evolution
| May 20, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Scientific criticism of evolution should not be muted for fear of being labeled a creationist. more
Evolutionary Logic
| May 19, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
Evolutionary logic has a further advantage, namely, the results are not required to be true, thus eliminating a tiresome (and now superfluous) restriction on the growth of evolutionary knowledge. more
Denis Alexander on ID
| May 19, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
Denis Alexander is a molecular biologist with very solid credentials who is based at Cambridge University. He is also a theistic evolutionist who has written several books on the relation between science and Christian faith. His most recent is Rebuilding the Matrix (with Zondervan). Even though he is a critic of ID, he helped one… more
“The Design Inference” — Coming to paperback in 6 months
| May 19, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
I just learned from my editor at Cambridge University Press that The Design Inference is going to be issued in paperback in the next 6 months. This is good news. When the book came out in 1998, it listed at $55. I believe it is now up to $85. This will take the price down… more
Dembski on “No Free Lunch”
| May 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
The New Yorker is doing a major piece on intelligent design next week written by Allen Orr more
Neither Matter Nor Magic But Mind
| May 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
The key is to understand that the nature-supernature distinction poses a false dilemma. There is a third option. more
Templeton Foundation Enlists Journalists into Its Science-Religion Discussion
| May 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Religion, Science |
Looking for 10 Fine Journalists Setting Up the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science and Religion By Julia Vitullo-Martin “It’s a pleasure to meet a man who’s got an asteroid named after him,” said Cathy Lynn Grossman, the religion correspondent for USA Today, extending her hand to Owen Gingerich, research professor of astronomy at Harvard and… more
Kansas School Board to Decide over Definition of Science
| May 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Science |
Check out the following stories at MSNBC and World Magazine: go here and here respectively. more
Kauffman, Roszak, Dobbs — Opening Up The Discussion
| May 17, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
I gave the entire Washington Post article on Phil Johnson here two days ago (go here). I want to draw your attention to two quotes in that article, one by Stuart Kauffman, the other by Theo Roszak. Kauffman is a well known self-organizational theorist. Roszak was a popular countercultural figure two and three decades ago… more
This Has Got to Be Disheartening to Darwinists
| May 17, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education |
Which statements reflect your views on the origin of human beings? 1. We evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, and God did not directly guide this process. 2. We evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years, but God guided this process. 3. God created us in our present… more
The Vise Strategy II: Essence of the Strategy
| May 16, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Over a decade ago, Phillip Johnson, in his public lectures, used to describe his critique of evolutionary naturalism as encapsulated in an analysis of three words: science, evolution, and creation. According to Johnson, by suitably equivocating about the meaning of these words, Darwinists were able to confuse the public and themselves into consenting to a… more
A Brave Editor’s Note
| May 15, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
In the eye of the Brazilian Darwinian hurricane more
Today’s Washington Post Article on Phil Johnson
| May 15, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Doubting Rationalist ‘Intelligent Design’ Proponent Phillip Johnson, and How He Came to Be http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/14/AR2005051401222_pf.html By Michael Powell Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 15, 2005; D01 more