Monthly Archives: September 2006
Jonathan Wells Party in DC October 11, 2006
| September 30, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
For those in the Washington, DC area, the Discovery Institute announced the following on their public website: Author Lecture with Jonathan Wells You are invited to meet Jonathan Wells for a special reception, discussion and booksigning at Discovery Institute’s Washington DC office, located at 1015 Fifteenth Street, NW Suite 900, on Wednesday, October 11th from… more
Unveiling overwhelmingevidence.com — give us your young people . . .
| September 30, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
The Darwinists have had your young people long enough to shape, subvert, and corrupt. Send them to www.overwhelmingevidence.com and mobilize this sleeping giant! The old guard is not going to change. The hope of the future lies with our youth. The new overwhelmingevidence.com site is modeled on Xanga and Myspace and aimed at concentrating the… more
Question re High Ross speaking in Toronto …
| September 30, 2006 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
In the comments box to my post of yesterday, someone wrote re Hugh Ross speaking at the ID conference in Toronto: I also find folks like Hugh Ross who’s speaking there in Toronto somewhat unsavory (if I may use such a word). He should be a big supporter of Intelligent Design, yet his article in… more
Gil Has Never Grasped the Nature of a Simulation Model
| September 30, 2006 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Tom English challenged me with this: I say categorically, as someone who has worked in evolutionary computation for 15 years, that Gil does not understand what he is talking about. This is not to say that he is trying to mislead anyone. It is simply clear that he has never grasped the nature of a… more
There are 2 guys named Tom English in the ID debate
| September 29, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Adminstrative |
Since many IDEA members read this weblog and this could be a point of confusion for other readers, I wanted to clarify something. Thomas D. English is a part of the IDEA Center Advisory Board. Thomas M. English is the Tom English that frequents Uncommon Descent. more
E. O. Wilson has been transferred to the make-nice platoon?
| September 29, 2006 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
BIll Dembski wrote, E.O. Wilson thinks that after years of reaming religious believers he can now ingratiate himself with them. Fine. Let him and his colleagues give up their monopoly on the teaching and government funding of materialistic evolutionary theories. Can E. O. Wilson really save the world? Ivan Semeniuk New Scientist, 30 September 2006… more
Ken Miller up to his old tricks . . .
| September 29, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Legal |
This just in from a colleague and posted with his permission. For the record: I did not withdraw from the Dover case — the Thomas More Law Center fired me over a perceived conflict of interest relating to my role as academic editor of the Foundation for Thought and Ethics (the publisher of the book… more
ACLU Alarmed Over Well Going Dry
| September 29, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
The Public Expression of Religion Act of 2005 passed by a 244-173 house vote Tuesday. The bill bans the award of attorney fees in establishment clause cases (like Kitzmiller v. Dover). The ACLU has turned establishment clause cases into a cottage industry for underemployed lawyers. Naturally, they are quite alarmed at this turn of events.… more
Can’t we all just be friends?
| September 29, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
E.O. Wilson thinks that after years of reaming religious believers he can now ingratiate himself with them. Fine. Let him and his colleagues give up their monopoly on the teaching and government funding of materialistic evolutionary theories. Can E. O. Wilson really save the world? Ivan Semeniuk New Scientist, 30 September 2006 http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19125711.300-can-e-o-wilson-really-save-the-world.html Often cited… more
A Realistic Computational Simulation of Random Mutation Filtered by Natural Selection in Biology
| September 28, 2006 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
All computational evolutionary algorithms artificially isolate the effects of random mutation on the underlying machinery: the CPU instruction set, operating system, and algorithmic processes responsible for the replication process. If the blind-watchmaker thesis is correct for biological evolution, all of these artificial constraints must be eliminated. Every aspect of the simulation, both hardware and software,… more
I Think We All Know
| September 28, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Dawkins says Given that 93% of the National Academy does not believe in any kind of personal god, a statistician would expect that at least some members of Congress, if not a majority, would also be atheists. Yet, as far as I can discover, the number of avowed atheists among the 535 members of Congress… more
The Dawkins Delusion a.k.a. The God Delusion
| September 28, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
A more apt title for Dawkins’ tome, based on his essay describing it, would be The Dawkins Delusion. More pap from it: If, as Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel once playfully speculated, life on this planet was deliberately seeded by a payload of bacteria in the nose cone of a rocket, we still need an… more
And The Hits Just Keep On Coming…
| September 28, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Dawkins says Lamentably, the scientific education of most British and American students omits all mention of Darwinism, and therefore the only alternative to chance that most people can imagine is design. Hello? Earth to Richard Dawkins. Do you copy? From What Do The State Science Standards Say About Evolution and Intelligent Design? The Education Week… more
Intelligence Arrives Later In Some Cases Than Others…
| September 28, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
In the extreme, it never arrives at all. A case in point below. Dawkins says Intelligent, creative, complex, statistically improbable things come late into the universe, as the product of evolution or some other process of gradual escalation from simple beginnings. They come late into the universe and therefore cannot be responsible for designing it.… more
Many Worlds, One God? Shift Happens
| September 27, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
________________ Quantum computers are a reality and they indirectly speak to the issue of intelligent design and the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of Quantum Mechanics. more
As An Outsider…
| September 27, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Richard Dawkins says As an outsider, I observe American culture polarizing fast, and religion is at the center of the action. Side note: Dawkins’ essay disappeared from his website after 3 days. I wonder if the thumbsters will accuse him of deleting embarrassing articles as they accuse us of doing? Something tells me Dawkins’ faux… more
“Why Darwinism Is Doomed”
| September 27, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
Leave it to Jonathan Wells to tell it like it is: . . . The truth is Darwinism is not a scientific theory, but a materialistic creation myth masquerading as science. It is first and foremost a weapon against religion – especially traditional Christianity. Evidence is brought in afterwards, as window dressing. This is becoming… more
ID book banning
| September 26, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
A colleague of mine added Of Pandas and People to the Wikipedia’s list of Banned Books at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_books. It clearly qualifies under the American Library Association’s definition of a successfully challenged book: A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the… more
[quote mine] Richard Dawkins : ” the presence of a creative deity in the universe is clearly a scientific hypothesis”
| September 26, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
the presence of a creative deity in the universe is clearly a scientific hypothesis. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a more momentous hypothesis in all of science….the God Hypothesis is a proper scientific hypothesis Richard Dawkins Whoa! more
Unusual for Canada?: Not just the usual “God and science” snore
| September 26, 2006 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here’s a first in Canada, maybe: A conference at the University of Toronto (September 29-20, 2006) on intelligent design and the universe/life that is not just the usual “God and science” snore – at least the organizers will do everything in their power to keep it from being the usual theistic evolution cop-out snooze. Here’s… more