Monthly Archives: June 2005
Paul McHugh in the Weekly Standard
| June 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
Many criticized the Darwinists for extrapolating too far, and now the Darwinists confess that actual, observable variation–whether in the barnyard or in nature–demonstrates only the capacity of a species population to vary within limits. more
“We are nothing more than machines”
| June 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Science |
Check out this book review by Christine Rosen from the June 13 issue of the Weekly Standard – go here. A few quotes to whet your interest: more
Del Ratzsch Responds to Niall Shanks
| June 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Del Ratzsch as an extended critical review of Niall Shanks’s anti-ID book God, the Devil, and Darwin. The review is at Ars Disputandi – go here. more
Laughlin in NYT on the End of Reductionism
| June 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Science |
Go here. more
Wayne Stayskal’s “Eternity Ward”
| June 18, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
A few days ago, I posted an old cartoon by Wayne Stayskal (“The Literal Interpretation of Darwin” — go here). I updated the cartoon slightly by substituting the phrase “intelligent design” for “creation.” Stayskal drew the cartoon back in 1981 at the time of the Arkansas creation trial. Here’s another one of my favorite Stayskal… more
San Diego Locals Bash ID
| June 17, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Check out the following item: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20050608-9999-lz1c08intel.html. Have any of these respondents read any of the ID literature? more
AAAS in Action Against ID
| June 16, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
Here’s a blurb from the June issue of Advances, the AAAS monthly newsletter: more
IDURC — Intelligent Design Undergraduate Research Center
| June 16, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Here’s an update from IDURC’s director: more
Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral Weighs in on ID (indirectly)
| June 16, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral is doing a multimillion-dollar multimedia production trying to reconcile science and religion. Check out this report: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20050616-9999-lz1c16crystal.html. more
Timothy Shortell — Enlightened Bigot
| June 16, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Religion |
Timothy Shortell is an associate professor of sociology at Brooklyn College who, on his homepage (go here), states: “I am currently working on a project examining public reaction to Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection from his day to our own.” It will be interesting to see what becomes of this project in light… more
The Literal Interpretation of Darwin
| June 15, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Del Ratzsch on Design in the (Online) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
| June 14, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Del Ratzsch’s entry on “Teleological Arguments for God’s Existence” is now available online in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleological-arguments and includes some remarks about ID. Del is simultaneously a critic and supporter of ID. His book Nature, Design, and Science (SUNY Press, 2001) is worth reading. more
Bjørn Lomborg on ID (by way of global warming)
| June 14, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Science |
I received this from a colleague in the UK on the the parallels between the ID debate and the environmentalism debate. more
Lakatos on Science and Pseudoscience
| June 13, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Science |
“To sum up: [The hallmark of empirical progress is not trivial verifications: Popper is right that there are millions of them. It is no success for Newtonian theory that stones, when dropped, fall towards the earth, no matter how often this is repeated. But, ] so-called ‘refutations’ are not the hallmark of empirical failure, as… more
To Explain the Flagellum — Just Look Up All the Homologies
| June 12, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
There’s an interesting exchange tucked away in some comments at the Pandasthumb on what it would take to provide an evolutionary explanation of the bacterial flagellum: more
Got a Problem? — Invoke “Evolution”
| June 12, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
To say that evolution is “a theory which has created cures for diseases and alleviated suffering” is therefore grossly misleading. It is like saying that tooth decay has assisted in designing new methods of filling cavities. more
Who are the true liberals?
| June 12, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
I think their listeners would be rather stunned to hear you or Behe or similar not remotely sounding like anti-scientific biblical creationists, which is the current stereotype they have of you and the ID movement more
Paul Johnson in Forbes on Darwinian Fundamentalism
| June 11, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
Of all the fundamentalist groups at large in the world today, the Darwinians seem to me the most objectionable. more
While I haven’t actually read the book or seen the movie …
| June 10, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
[William Tucker writes:] I haven’t seen the movie, but I did read the excerpt from the book, The Privileged Planet, in the March 2004 issue of The American Spectator. I don’t know whether I’d call authors Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards’ argument “religious.†“Creepy†would seem a better term. MORE more
The Politics of Restricting ID
| June 10, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
evolutionists, in their thirst to crush ID, are every bit as committed to political maneuvering the most ardent supporter of the “Wedge.” more