I love animations of cellular and subcellular events. Today, I found a good website with some new animations. It’s at http://www.fivth.com/fiVthSite/web-content/NewFiles/GrahamJcom/web-content/gjPortfolioCBani.html and each of the thumbnails has an animation associated with it.
Go here: http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/blog/index.html.
There’s an old Saturday Night Live routine with Anthony Perkins (who played Norman Bates, the crazed motel operator in Hitchcock’s PSYCHO). In it, Perkins, playing Bates, describes his new school of hotel management:
Norman Bates: [ to camera ] Are you tired of slaving away in a dull, dead-end job? Fed up with meager paychecks that […]
Darwin’s Divisions
BY FR. MARTIN HILBERT
Philosopher of science and Catholic priest Martin Hilbert explores the church’s role in discussing science and Darwinism using the recent comments of Popes, Cardinal Schönborn of Austria, and the head of the Vatican Observatory, Father George Coyne, S. J.
The church would do a great disservice to believers and to humanity as […]
Intelligent design leads to forsaking atheism
By Jerry Bergman
Why did the court rule against teaching intelligent design in the Dover, Pa., case? Judge Jones’ ruling was summed up by one commentator as follows: Critical analysis of evolutionism leads to intelligent design, which leads to the Creator requirement. The Creator requirement leads to religion, which leads to […]
Pitt anthropologist thinks Darwin’s theory needs to evolve on some points
Monday, May 29, 2006
By Mark Roth
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06149/694046-85.stm
Darwin was wrong, and his modern-day adherents perpetuate his mistakes.
That sounds like the opening salvo of an advocate for Intelligent Design or some other religiously driven critique of the theory of evolution.
But it actually summarizes the ideas of […]
On another blog, the following quotes from Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement are listed approvingly:
“Evolutionary biology certainly hasn’t explained everything that perplexes biologists, but intelligent design hasn’t yet tried to explain anything at all.†–Daniel C. Dennett, Philosopher
“Not only is ID markedly inferior to Darwinism at explaining and understanding nature but in […]
[Excerpts from a lecture by Daniel Dennett in March this year:]
The late Steve Gould was really right when he called Richard and me Darwinian fundamentalists. And I want to say what a Darwinian fundamentalist is. A Darwinian fundamentalist is one who recognizes that either you shun Darwinian evolution altogether, or you turn the traditional universe […]
It appears that the first usage of this term traces to the Christian philosopher Paul de Vries. He used the term orally at a conference in 1983. A few years later it appeared in print in the paper “Naturalism in the Natural Sciences,” Christian Scholar’s Review 15 (1986), 388-96. For de Vries, methodological naturalism […]
Extracts from the introduction to Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement, edited by John Brockman, Vintage Books (go here for an earlier report about this book on this blog):
Religious fundamentalism is on the rise under the rubric of “intelligent design.” ID imperils American global dominance in science and presents the gravest of threats […]
FOR RELEASE MAY 25, 2006
Discovery Institute Applauds Federal U.S. Appeals Court Decision To Throw Out Judge’s Ruling Against Evolution Disclaimers on Textbooks
Atlanta – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has thrown out the trial court decision ruling that evolution disclaimers on science textbooks were unconstitutional.
In a unanimous decision the federal three-judge […]
The opinion has been issued (it’s been described as a “mess” — a remand for fact-finding). Go here:
http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/todaysops.php.
ACLU lawsuit challenges Ky. funeral-protest law
By The Associated Press
05.02.06
FRANKFORT, Ky.  Portions of a new state law intended to prevent protesters from disrupting funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq are unconstitutional and should be struck down, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday.
Graduation prayer axed at Shelby County High
PRINCIPAL CITES COMPLAINT FROM STUDENT, CIVIL LIBERTIES ORGANIZATION
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SHELBYVILLE - The principal of Shelby County High School said the school will not have formal prayer at graduation exercises next month after receiving a complaint from a student and the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.
Ultimate Questions
“Scientific knowledge is a malleable body of information that changes over time, as new tools are applied and new facts are integrated,” says Bryce Paschal, an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at U.Va. “Good science identifies weak links in what is known. Science should acknowledge the shortcomings in evolutionary science, especially as […]
In an earlier post (go here), I remarked:
Have a listen to the following segment from Dawkins’s documentary against religion (â€ÂThe Root of All Evil?â€Â):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUy-Uq3WuhA
Who is the rapper that did this rendition of the Lord’s Prayer?
The first comment on this previous post implicated Al Nezy, “Da PreachaMan,” as the rapper responsible for it. I’ve now been […]
Early nonsense: mRNA decay solves a translational problem
Nadia Amrani, Matthew S. Sachs and Allan Jacobson
http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v7/n6/pdf/nrm1942.pdf
[Here are some excerpts:]
The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway ensures that incomplete messenger RNAs that harbour premature termination, or nonsense (non Amino acid coding), codons are targeted for rapid degradation. New insights into the process of NMD have provided unexpected glimpses […]
It seems even the New England Journal of Medicine is unable to honestly charactarize what ID is.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/21/2277
Here’s the transcript for the previous posting. It’s comforting to know that popular culture is in such capable hands.
A new Zogby international poll shows that 69% of Americans support public school teachers presenting the theory of evolution as well as theories that are in opposition. If only there were any that didn’t have God somewhere […]
Here you can listen to an entertaining anti-ID rant made by Henry Rollins. As you listen to it, remember that Rollins and others like him are only interested in defending the integrity of science.
(HT: Krauze of Telic Thoughts)
[Somebody please do a transcript of this and post it here. This is […]
Here is the transcript of the May 11 speech in New York by Patricia Princehouse, as she accepted a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award from the Playboy Foundation for her efforts to preserve science education in Ohio public schools. Note that Eugenie Scott received this same award in 1999 (go here).
SCIENCE AND THE […]
Interesting how pro-science has come to mean anti-ID. It reminds me of how pro-choice has come to mean anti-life.
It’s going to become increasingly difficult in coming days for evolutionists to maintain the charade that they are “pro-science” — after all, pro-science means following the evidence wherever it leads.
By the way, I now own the domain […]
Yes, it tastes like real science, but it has zero calories and cannot sustain life.
[From a colleague:] Why are scientists admitting that current origin of life chemistry is vexing or even dead? Why else does it need “new life breathed into it”?
“One of the most vexing questions facing biologists is how life on Earth first […]
Heal Thyself: Systems Biology Model Reveals How Cells Avoid Becoming Cancerous
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060521103656.htm
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed to a powerful chemical mutagen. The group led by UCSD […]
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. –Mahatma Gandhi
Exam Question: Which stage are we in with the ID debate and what will victory look like?
Extra Credit: How long till victory? Justify your answer.
In his 139-page decision, Judge Jones revealed his deficiencies in science. In his commencement address described below, he reveals his deficiencies in history. Note the passage in bold. Who among our nation’s founding fathers believed that the essence of religion is an Enlightenment rationalism that eschews design? None of them. Even Jefferson would be on […]
Have a listen to the following segment from Dawkins’s documentary against religion (”The Root of All Evil?”):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUy-Uq3WuhA
Who is the rapper that did this rendition of the Lord’s Prayer?
For your further edification, here is another bit of vintage Dawkins from that documentary:
The God of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in […]
Researcher Brings Intelligent Design to Mind
By RICHARD MONASTERSKY
When the leaders of the intelligent-design movement gathered for a secret conference this month in California, most of the talks focused on their standard concerns: biochemistry, evolution, and the origin of the universe. But they also heard from an ally in the neurosciences, who sees his own field […]
How Does The Lowly Bacterium Sense Its Environment? Cornell Researchers Discover Lattice Of Supersensitive Receptors
When humans taste or smell, receptors unique to each nerve cell detect the chemical and send signals to the brain, where many cells process the message to understand what we are smelling or tasting. But a bacterium is just a single […]
In case you missed it at the Cannes Film Festival:
Directed and co-scripted by British documentary-maker James Marsh, The King is a fascinating psychological drama that puts the boot into the delusions, hypocrisy and cruelty of American Christian fundamentalism. In his first English-speaking role, charismatic Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal plays 21-year-old Elvis, son of a […]