Monthly Archives: June 2006
[Admin Announcement] Get Back to Intelligent Design
| June 25, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Adminstrative, Intelligent Design |
I’ve been lax in keeping the topic here on intelligent design and away from everyone’s favorite religion (or lack thereof). I’m as guilty as anyone. To remedy this situation I’m going to be deleting any comments I see with gratuitous references to religion until further notice. I’ll make an exception for any of our authors… more
Thank God for Steven Weinberg
| June 24, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Religion, Science |
Weinberg has a knack for seeing through pretensions. His reference to Sontag’s “piety without content” reminds me of Martin Gardner’s “loyal liars” in his delightful and depressing theological novel The Flight of Peter Fromm (available from Prometheus — I’m going to be using it in my apologetics course this fall). MR. WEINBERG: In my experience… more
New German ID Book
| June 24, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Rammerstorfer, Markus (2006). Nur eine Illusion? Biologie und Design [Only an Illusion? Biology and Design]. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg / ISBN 3-8288-9117-9. This book is now available. Amazon.de displays it here: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3828891179/028-6300370-3230923?v=glance&n=299956 See also the author’s homepage: http://members.aon.at/evolution/Book.html. more
[Off topic:] Darwin’s tortoise dies
| June 24, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism |
Darwin’s tortoise dies http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/darwins-tortoise-aged-176-dies/2006/06/23/1150845377114.html Father time has finally caught up with the world’s oldest animal in captivity. Giant Galapagos tortoise Harriet has died of a suspected heart attack at the ripe old age of 176 on the Sunshine Coast. She was a star attraction at Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo since the 1980s and even features… more
“Evolution as Alchemy” (previously “Darwinism as Naturalistic Mystery Religion”)
| June 23, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
In light of the recent discussion on this blog about Darwinism as a naturalistic mystery religion (go here), I decided to revise and update a piece I did a long time ago relating evolution and alchemy. I’ve titled it “Evolution as Alchemy” (go here for pdf, here for html). I’ve also included the text (minus… more
ID in Indonesia
| June 23, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Check out the following links: http://www.salib.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1065 http://www.partaidamaisejahtera.com/diskusi/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=9 more
Fired for Being Irrelevant
| June 23, 2006 | Posted by johnnyb under Intelligent Design, Religion |
In shocking news this morning, johnnyb was fired from his job for being irrelevant. When asked about why he was fired, ABC Co. gave the following response — “We looked at the operation of the company, and, while there were many programs attributed to him, and some people claimed that the network worked because of… more
Are Ken Miller and Francis Collins ID proponents when it comes to the Origin of Life?
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Here is an edited report on Ken Miller’s talk that he gave at Texas Tech back in March 2006 (go here) as well as a portion of a keynote address given by Francis Collins at the 2002 ASA meeting in Malibu (go here): Ken Miller’s talk was well attended — the auditorium was stacked (400+)… more
Is being pro-Castro more acceptable than being pro-ID?
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
[From an attorney friend of mine:] Bill, here is an item you might want to “blog” about, relating to the ACLU and the obligation of public schools to keep books in their libraries that take positions some parents object to: An AP story today (6/22/06) in the Washington Times is headlined “ACLU: Miami can’t pull… more
Episcopalian intelligentsia sucking up to the scientific establishment
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
My last post describes 67 scientific academies around the world weighing in to support evolution. Not to be left behind, the Episcopalian intelligentsia and leadership have just done the same. Both houses, Bishops and Deputies, of the Episcopal Church General Convention have approved the following resolution. The Episcopal Church is therefore now on record in… more
IAP Statement on the Teaching of Evolution
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Here is a story in the Guardian about the world’s science academies locking arms and digging in their heels to stem the tide of anti-evolution sentiment issuing from the unruly masses. Now if only evolution weren’t such a crock … Scientists call for better teaching on evolution http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1802823,00.html Rebecca Smithers Thursday June 22, 2006 The… more
Uncommon Descent Sees Record High Traffic in May
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Panda’s Thumb is heading downhill since Kitzmiller v. DASD but we aren’t. In May we achieved a new record number of visits at 146,084 to bring our total number of visits to over 1.25 million in the last 12 months. Thanks to everyone for helping to get our message out to a growing number of… more
Michael Shermer Admits Science Is Religion To Him
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Michael Shermer writes in the Skeptic column of the December 2005 Scientific American There are many ways to be spiritual, and science is one, with its awe-inspiring account about who we are and where we came from. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos… more
Opening day of ResearchID website
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Today is the opening day of the http://researchid.org website. Readers are invited to visit it. Here is a letter from the founder: The intelligent design community needs dynamic and interactive websites where professionals and students can gain valuable information about ID, and at the same time contribute their own knowledge and information to the site.… more
Pretending that Evolutionary Theory is Separable from Abiogenesis
| June 22, 2006 | Posted by johnnyb under Darwinism, Evolution |
Do traceable lines of descent exist that might ultimately permit characterization of the genomes of organisms basal to the clades for the highest categories? The answer to this question increasingly appears to be no. Recent work on genomic structures demonstrate that all living organisms are genetic composites: mosaics and chimeras composed of bits and pieces… more
The synergy between UD and Post-Darwinist — Do you feel the love?
| June 21, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Denyse O’Leary at Post-Darwinist is a compadre: Here is what I think drives that sort of behavior [i.e., Christian Scholars like Simon Conway Morris talking nonsense about ID]: Some Christians in science are into emotional meltdown re ID because they have suddenly realized what is at stake: – The only way to rule out ID… more
Darwinist chastised for spinning “just so” stories, but he still brings home the bacon
| June 21, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Europeans resist “mad cow disease” because their ancestors were selected for cannibalism….Jews were selected for higher intelligence than other peoples because of the calculational demands of money-lending… more
ID Podcasts
| June 21, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
This just in from a colleague at Discovery Institute: There is a new episode of the IDTF podcast available at: http://intelligentdesign.podOmatic.com. This week we offer a brief summary of The Design Revolution: Answering The Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design. Help spread the word: http://www.podOmatic.com/podcast/tell/intelligentdesign. Be sure to visit the IDTF website at www.idthefuture.com, and keep… more
University indoctrination program launched, but one professor sees the light
| June 21, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Biologist Stanely Salthe at Binghamton University is at the top of the Discovery Institute’s Dissent from Darwin honor roll. Stanley Salthe I am a critic of Darwinian evolutionary theory — which was my own erstwhile field of specialization in biology. My opposition is fundamentally to its sole reliance on competition as an explanatory principle (in… more
Is Darwinism a naturalistic mystery religion masquerading as a scientific theory?
| June 20, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
A friend of mine asked me to write a foreword to a forthcoming book critiquing Darwinism and promoting ID. I’m giving the foreword below but keeping the author and the book anonymous for the time being. In the foreword, I argue for the following claim: Evolutionary theory, in its grand macroevolutionary Darwinian form, flies in… more