Monthly Archives: July 2005
You naive, stupid Americans! — With love and best wishes, Eugenie Scott
| July 14, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
On May 21st, I wrote an item on this blog titled “Sorry, kids, but you’re just too stupid” (go here), which described one rationale by Darwinists to exclude the teaching of intelligent design in the public schools, namely, kids are too stupid to understand the issues raised by evolutionary theory so that bringing up intelligent… more
ID and Neuroscience
| July 14, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Science |
My good friend and colleague Jeffrey Schwartz (along with Mario Beauregard and Henry Stapp) has just published a paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society that challenges the materialism endemic to so much of contemporary neuroscience. By contrast, it argues for the irreducibility of mind (and therefore intelligence) to material mechanisms. more
“Debunking Darwin”
| July 13, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
My alumni/ae magazine, The University of Chicago Magazine, has a brief piece on me in its June 2005 issue (p. 58). It’s always interesting to see how one is perceived: more
Hard left atheist/agnostic espousing ID
| July 12, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Although it may be morally offensive to consider that we may be some ET High School science project gone awry, it would explain a lot. . . . So count us among those who hold that the idea of “intelligent design” should be included in the scholastic curriculum — but without any prejudicial mention of… more
Discovery Institute Takes up the Case of Bryan Leonard
| July 11, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Discovery Institute Files Public Records Request in OSU Evolution Academic Freedom Case SEATTLE – Discovery Institute has filed a public records request with the Ohio State University (OSU) seeking all documents related to Darwinist attacks on OSU doctoral candidate Bryan Leonard. The request was submitted under the Ohio Public Records Act. more
New Scientist Issue on ID
| July 10, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
media coverage of intelligent design has mostly failed to present your case on scientific grounds more
Follow-Up on Cardinal Schönborn’s NYTimes OpEd
| July 9, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Leading Cardinal Redefines Church’s View on Evolution By CORNELIA DEAN and LAURIE GOODSTEIN more
The Smithsonian’s ID Troubles
| July 8, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Check out the following article in The Scientist: more
Jeffrey Shallit, Part II
| July 8, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
In replying to my blog entry of June 23, 2005 (go here for my entry and here for Shallit’s response), Jeffrey Shallit has succumbed to the endearing weakness of revising history in his own favor. I’ll respond to him point for point: more
Signs of the Catholic Church Coming Out Against Neo-Darwinism and for ID
| July 7, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Cardinal Schönborn’s oped today in the NYTimes is one of the first signs that the Catholic Church under Pope Benedict XVI is going to be repudiating neo-Darwinism and supporting ID. Schönborn is both a close personal friend of the pope and philosophically on the same page with him. See also Mike Behe’s comments about this… more
Conservatives on Evolution and ID
| July 7, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
The New Republic asked the opinions of prominent conservatives on evolution and ID. more
Speed of Mutations and Not Natural Selection the Key
| July 6, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
For more than three decades, molecular evolutionists have thought that no matter how many genetic mutations show up on a specific gene, whether or not those mutations become fixed in the species is determined primarily by natural selection. The new study shows that the speed at which these new mutations arrive also affects whether the… more
CHRISTIANITY TODAY on Privileged Planet Controversy
| July 6, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Jewish mathematician David Berlinski, a well-known critic of Darwinism, told Christianity Today, “I thought the uproar was indecent. I am in general appalled but not surprised by the willingness of academics to give up every principle of free speech and honest debate whenever they think they can do so without paying a price.” MORE more
Doing the Piledriver on Saint Charles
| July 5, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
Of all the professional wrestling moves, the piledriver most profoundly signifies how I conceive of the relation between ID and Darwin’s legacy. Think of the following image, therefore, as a metaphor of the ID movement: more
Some URLs of Interest
| July 5, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Religion, Science |
Tom Schneider, “Mr. Biological Information” himself and one of my critics, seems genuinely concerned about the welfare of my soul, though in his case he wants to help me find my way out of my religious faith. Here are two articles that he recently recommended to me: more
Can Skeptics Ever Change Their Minds?
| July 5, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Massimo Pigliucci, in the past one of my more extreme critics (e.g., go here and here), is now trying to put a softer face on his skepticism and atheism. He admits that on three matters relevant to the ID debate, he has changed his mind. I’ll leave it to you to decide if these changes… more
Quantum Physics Supports Evolution and Refutes ID
| July 5, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
It must be true — I read it in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/science/05essa.html? more
Shermer on ID in Scientific American — As Good As It Gets?
| July 5, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Earlier on this blog, DaveScot cited Michael Shermer’s account of the Word Summit on Evolution that took place in the Galapagos Islands last month (go here for Shermer’s account in the Scientific American). TomG then raised the following question (for the thread in which he did so, go here): more
Real Skepticism vs. Sham Skepticism
| July 4, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
I appreciate emails like this by ID skeptics who are genuine in their skepticism and see through the sham skepticism of persons who may appropriately be described as secular fundamentalists: more
The ID Answer Man?
| July 4, 2005 | Posted by William Dembski under Education |
[Sorry my original posting here was a bit gruff. Let me rephrase it as follows:] I’m happy to respond to questions that are raised in the comments on this blog provided they are pertinent to the thread in which they appear and provided I have the time. On the other hand, questions out of the… more