Monthly Archives: November 2006
Wikipedia Hatchet Jobs on ID Leaders
| November 30, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
A small group of Wikipedia admins with a grudge against ID have been running amok with no oversight performing and/or allowing hatchet jobs on ID and its leaders. It’s long past time to expose what they’ve been doing. Wikipedia is far too popular and reliable source of information, especially for school children, to let this… more
Theology corner: Why is the ID guy at the open theology conference a pork chop at a Jewish wedding?
| November 30, 2006 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Recently, a caffeine-deprived friend was grousing about the fact that ID proponents don’t tend to be welcomed at “open theology” conferences. “Open theology” implies a much more limited sort of God than the Immortal, invisible, God only wise of the Western monotheist (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) tradition. Now, it’s unclear to me why the ID guys,… more
ID in the UK: Is there a British media competition to get it all wrong?
| November 30, 2006 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
So many media outlets have voted themselves the guardians of the bottom-up theory of life and the opponents of the top-down theory of life. Consistent with their mission, they seem to compete for what they can get wrong about intelligent design or any other idea that insists that mind comes first. Evidence has nothing to… more
Scientist Says Global Warming A Lost Cause
| November 30, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Culture, Global Warming, Science |
Controversial scientist predicts planetary wipeout Billions of people could be wiped out over the next century because of climate change, a leading expert said. Professor James Lovelock, who pioneered the idea of the Earth as a living organism, said as the planet heats up humans will find it increasingly hard to survive. He warned that… more
More Science by Judicial Fiat
| November 30, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Courts, Global Warming, Science |
Once again, when the secular ruling elite of the science establishment can’t make a convincing case on the merits they try to get their conclusions mandated by judicial fiat. US Supreme Court appears divided over global warming more
Declaration on Science and Secularism
| November 29, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
The Center for Inquiry’s new branch office in DC has issued a “Declaration on Science and Secularism” in which they lament the increasing appeal of ID among the unwashed masses. There’s a simple way for this problem to go away: stop stealing the money of the unwashed masses (in the form of taxes) to underwrite… more
Quote of the day
| November 28, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” — Who said it and how does it apply to the ID-evolution controversy? more
The Sound of a Nested Hierarchy Shattering
| November 28, 2006 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Chromosomal sex determination in the platypus discovered to be a combination of mammal and bird systems. The resemblance to birds is now more than just superficial. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6568 more
ID Media Blitz in the UK
| November 28, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Here are articles that came out just since last night on the challenge to Darwinian orthodoxy in the UK. It looks as though Truth in Science is causing a media storm. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/27/id_blighty http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2006/11/061127_intelligent.shtml http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/11/27/6092 http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1958138,00.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/28/ncreation28.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/28/ncreation128.xml http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6187534.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/28/ncreation228.xml http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/10924.html http://www.christiantoday.com/article/intelligent.design.filtering.into.british.schools.as.darwin.debate.intensifies/8526.htm more
Another ID-friendly scientist, Peter Korevaar, given airtime in prestigious scientific journal Nature
| November 28, 2006 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
From Anti-evolutionists raise their profile in Europe in the November 23, 2006 issue of the prestigious scientific journal Nature. more
Parody Site “The Brites” is back in business
| November 27, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
With Dawkins and his village atheism getting so much attention, it’s only appropriate that THE BRITES is back in business: http://cedros.globat.com/~thebrites.org/index.htm. more
Should professional societies issue position statements at all?
| November 25, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Science |
Take a look at Ross McKitrick’s recent remarks on the subject of position statements from professional societies: http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/11/23/should-scientific-societies-issue-position-statements-by-ross-mckitrick He argues against the practice of societies issuing position statements. This has direct application to the ID debate and the public statements issued by the AAAS, NAS, AAS, etc. Here are two particularly insightful paragraphs from McKitrick’s… more
Pinker in the Harvard Crimson
| November 24, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Education, Religion, Science |
Steven Pinker has published an interesting op-ed in today’s Harvard Crimson, criticizing the current report of Harvard’s committee on general education. If one could reformulate Pinker’s dogmatic pronouncements as questions to be examined, this would be a good essay. For example, What is faith? Is Earth truly an undistinguished speck in the cosmos, or is… more
Book review: “The Language of God” and the language of men – genome mapper Francis Collins on his faith
| November 24, 2006 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here is my review of Francis Collins’ The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press, New York, 2006), with a look at the other reviews. Collins is a snapshot in time: the Christian scientist reassuring everyone that materialist science is no threat – on the very eve of the big blowout. Some… more
Putting the sins of atheism in perspective
| November 24, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Religion |
With Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, et al. on a rampage against religion, its worth putting the sins of atheism in perspective: Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history By Dinesh D’Souza RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. – In recent months, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents,… more
[Slightly off topic:] Baylor’s ongoing struggle with its Christian identity
| November 24, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Education, Intelligent Design |
Baylor University, which in the past has figured large in the debate over ID (see here), continues to struggle with its Christian identity. Check out the following blog entry by Hunter Baker, and especially comment #5: http://www.southernappeal.org/index.php/archives/2124. more
Granville Sewell on the backlash against ID
| November 24, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Why Are They So Angry? Granville Sewell There are a lot of articles out there on the web intended to refute my writings on Intelligent Design, but if there is one that isn’t full of anger and personal insults, I haven’t located it yet. Other ID proponents have experienced similar reactions to their writings, and… more
Vanity, Vanity, All Is Vanity!
| November 22, 2006 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
In this UD thread, Mentok brought up something that, it seems to me, is quintessentially behind the ID versus materialism controversy: Is there, ultimately, any purpose or meaning behind anything, especially our lives? With thanks to William Lane Craig, the author of Ecclesiastes, and Carl Sagan, I offer the following: more
Priceless Entertainment — For Free!
| November 21, 2006 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Check this out: The Strange Case of Dr. Darwinist and Mr. Creationist What a hoot! This guy is as dumb as the guy who robs a liquor store and leaves his ID behind. Inspector Clouseau would be proud to have such a proficient protégé. With clumsy enemies like this, who needs friends? more
I am the Alpha Delta and Omega
| November 21, 2006 | Posted by William Dembski under Religion, Science |
There’s a hilarious typo in the illustration accompanying the article on the recent Salk Institute evangelical atheism conference that appeared on the front page of the Science Times today. The fact that this got by the author and the editors at the NYT speaks volumes about the broader cultural illiteracy of the science-worshipping, liberal literary… more