Monthly Archives: February 2006
Wisconsin does a Dover in reverse: $1000 reward to first teacher who challenges policy
| February 7, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
I’m offering $1000 to the first teacher in Wisconsin who (1) challenges this policy (should it be enacted) by teaching ID as science within a Wisconsin public school science curriculum (social science does not count), (2) gets him/herself fired, reprimanded, or otherwise punished in some actionable way, (3) obtains legal representation from a public interest… more
My talk at KU on the 23rd of January
| February 7, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
I spoke on ID at the Lied Center at the University of Kansas on January 23rd to an audience of about 1500. For both the talk and the lively Q&A, go here: http://www.kucru.com/Artist%20-%20Track%201(1).mp3 http://www.kucru.com/Artist%20-%20Track%201.mp3 more
Does Darwinian Evolution Explain Antibiotic Resistance?
| February 7, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
20 January 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5759, pp. 374 – 377 SCIENCE Sampling the Antibiotic Resistome Vanessa M. D’Costa, Katherine M. McGrann, Donald W. Hughes, Gerard D. Wright Microbial resistance to antibiotics currently spans all known classes of natural and synthetic compounds. It has not only hindered our treatment of infections but also dramatically reshaped… more
Behe Responds to Judge Jones
| February 6, 2006 | Posted by Patrick under Courts, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Legal, Science |
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=697 Behe covers several sections in detail but here is the overall summary at the end: The Court’s reasoning in section E-4 is premised on: a cramped view of science; the conflation of intelligent design with creationism; the incapacity to distinguish the implications of a theory from the theory itself; a failure to differentiate evolution… more
David Berlinski’s “On the Origins of Life” in This Month’s Issue of Commentary Magazine
| February 6, 2006 | Posted by crandaddy under Biology, Self-Org. Theory |
Go here to read the article. more
Common Descent or Common Design – Is There a Difference?
| February 5, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
As long as I’m on the subject of overwhelming points of similarity vs. underwhelming points of difference, a few points of similarity between man and chimp in no particular order, off the top of my head: more
Universal Genetic Code
| February 5, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Biology, Intelligent Design, Science |
It has come to my attention that because the genetic code isn’t quite universal some people think that is grounds for calling into question how many more than one common ancestor there might be. more
“An insurgency that ultimately aims to topple Darwin”
| February 3, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Crocker was about to establish a small beachhead for an insurgency that ultimately aims to topple Darwin’s view… more
Machines Are the Result of Intelligent Agency
| February 3, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
In every case where a machine is observed and its origin can be determined it is the result of intelligent agency. When observations have been repeated billions of times by billions of people like this without a single exception it is a law of nature, not hypothesis and not mere theory. more
Judge John E. Jones III as Inquisitor
| February 3, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
[From a colleague:] I understand the importance of the political struggle—not because the truth of neo-Darwinism or ID (or a “third way”) can be settled by the courts, but because Darwinian metaphysics is doing real moral and political mischief in our society, and therefore must be opposed in whatever manner is practicable. From that point… more
James Dee of the Austin American-Statesman Weighs in on ID
| February 2, 2006 | Posted by crandaddy under Intelligent Design |
Dee: The two black holes in Intelligent Design James H. Dee, LOCAL CONTRIBUTOR Thursday, February 02, 2006 Source: http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/02/2dee_edit.html Anyone reading this page must know that ID (Intelligent Design) is a much-disputed and assiduously marketed competitor to evolution. Scientists in every field (and now a federal judge in the Dover, Pa., school board case) have… more
ID Comments and Responses
| February 2, 2006 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
My initial posting prompted some excellent and thought-provoking comments and challenges, so I thought I would address some of them here in Q&A form since these topics should be of special interest to readers of this blog. Comment: “If you could hypothetically adjust one of the cosmological constants to destroy all life then there’s no… more
(off topic) Comment Policy
| February 2, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Adminstrative, Off Topic |
I created some new Pages with links in the right column of the blog. Under Comment Policy are Moderation which is the moderation policy statements made by Bill Dembski and continued by his appointed Blog Czar and Put a Sock In It which is a partial list of boring arguments that earn deletion and if… more
The Dembski-Ruse Rematch — See You Tomorrow!
| February 2, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
http://www.greer-heard.com more
Jeffrey H. Schwartz’s Sudden Origins
| February 2, 2006 | Posted by Patrick under Biology, Darwinism, Evolution |
http://www.umc.pitt.edu:591/m/FMPro?-db=ma&-lay=a&-format=d.html&id=2297&-Find Schwartz hearkens back to earlier theories that suggest that the Darwinian model of evolution as continual and gradual adaptation to the environment glosses over gaps in the fossil record by assuming the intervening fossils simply have not been found yet. Rather, Schwartz argues, they have not been found because they don’t exist, since evolution… more
Ruse Interview in Dallas Daily News
| February 1, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Michael Ruse: Darwinist talks with Points about ID and evolution in the classroom 03:36 PM CST on Sunday, January 29, 2006 Do you think there is anything at all to the intelligent design argument from irreducible complexity? No. I think it’s “creationism lite” tarted up to look like science to get around the constitutional separation… more
[Tangentially Related:] Augustine and Origen in relation to YEC
| February 1, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Jonathan Sarfati has a piece at Answers in Genesis titled “ID theorist blunders on Bible: Reply to Dr William Dembski.” In it he remarks (quoting me): Misrepresenting the Church Fathers Dr William Dembski [WD]: “Let me concede that young earth creationism was largely the position of the church from the Church Fathers through the Reformers.”… more
Surprisingly high degree of organization of prokaryotic genomes
| February 1, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
“This high degree of organization of prokaryotic [organisms that lack nuclei] genomes is a complete surprise, and this finding carried many implications that biologists might not have considered before,†said Bernhard Palsson, a professor of bioengineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering and adjunct professor of medicine and co-author of the analysis. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060130154134.htm Ask yourself… more
ID documentary premiers in Kansas
| February 1, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
The dodos have come to Kansas Filmmaker’s documentary a sold-out premiere in his hometown By ROBERT W. BUTLER The Kansas City Star Posted on Tue, Jan. 31, 2006 http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/13751749.htm Randy Olson is no dodo. But he knows one when he films one. And he also knows that using a stupid bird to tout his movie… more
GWU Prof weighs in on ID
| February 1, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Viewpoint: Two Notions of Intelligence in Design By Lloyd Eby World Peace Herald Contributor Published: January 30, 2006 Source: http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060130-090253-1504r WASHINGTON — Some critics of intelligent design (ID) ask, “How can the designer of biological species be intelligent, given that so many species have come into existence and then disappeared. How can an intelligent designer… more