Monthly Archives: May 2007
Darwin a bold Prophet?
| May 31, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
“I believe that if fossil birds are found very low down in the series, they will be seen to have a double or bifurcated wing. Here is a bold prophecy!” http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1452.2&viewtype=text&pageseq=226 Does any one know if his prophecy came true? more
NASA’s Top Official Questions Global Warming
| May 31, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
NASA’s Top Official Questions Global Warming NASA Administrator Michael Griffin Questions Need to Combat Warming “I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists,” Griffin told Inskeep. “I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with.” “To assume that it is a problem… more
Sam Brownback on Evolution:
| May 31, 2007 | Posted by The Scubaredneck under Intelligent Design |
What I Think About Evolution By SAM BROWNBACK Published: May 31, 2007 Washington IN our sound-bite political culture, it is unrealistic to expect that every complicated issue will be addressed with the nuance or subtlety it deserves. So I suppose I should not have been surprised earlier this month when, during the first Republican presidential… more
The Greening Earth
| May 30, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Science |
This map is the result of 8 scientists poring over satellite data for 18 months. It shows how plant growth (NPP or net primary productivity) around the world has changed in the past 20 years of global warming and CO2 buildup in the atmosphere. The result is a 6% increase when all the globe’s vegetation… more
More Silly Psychobabble About “Resistance to Science”
| May 29, 2007 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design, Science |
In this essay, psychologists Paul Bloom and Deena Weisberg assert: The developmental data suggest that resistance to science will arise in children when scientific claims clash with early emerging, intuitive expectations. This resistance will persist through adulthood if the scientific claims are contested within a society, and will be especially strong if there is a… more
Atmospheric CO2 Increase Varies by 100% Year to Year
| May 29, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
I was reading the 2007 IPCC report’s 2007 Physical Science Basis and it came as a surprise how much variance there is from year to year in how atmospheric CO2 increases. CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels remains relatively constant but the amount of that CO2 that actually stays in the atmosphere varies by over… more
Creationism in popular culture: NYT culture critic visits creation museum
| May 29, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
When I first turned to read Edward Rothstein’s account in the New York Times’ Arts section of the just-opened creation museum at Petersburg, Kentucky, I gritted my teeth in advance. I have little use for creation museums, but way, way less use for self-regarding, overaged art twerps who pretend superiority to millions of people who… more
Cosmic Rays Implicated in Climate Change
| May 27, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
In a nutshell – cosmic rays induce particle formation in the atmosphere. Water droplets coalesce around these particles producing clouds. Clouds reflect sunlight back into space. The more clouds the cooler it is and the fewer clouds the hotter it is. The sun’s magnetic field deflects more or fewer cosmic rays depending on its intensity.… more
Columnist and lawyer Ken Connor weighs in on Gonzalez tenure case
| May 27, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here’s columnist Ken Connor (Terry Schiavo lawyer) on the Gonzalez tenure denial: It seems that many scientists and academicians who hold views contrary to Dr. Gonzalez have concluded that the best way to avoid debate about the evidence for intelligent design is to simply deny jobs to those who will not affirm their atheistic worldview.… more
Climate Catastrophe Cancelled
| May 27, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
| May 26, 2007 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Or something like that. This book looks WAY interesting…here’s the blurb from the University of California Press: The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on… more
RNA-binding proteins: modular design for efficient function
| May 26, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Many RNA-binding proteins have modular structures and are composed of multiple repeats of just a few basic domains that are arranged in various ways to satisfy their diverse functional requirements. Recent studies have investigated how different modules cooperate in regulating the RNA-binding specificity and the biological activity of these proteins. They have also investigated how… more
Jonathan Wells at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara
| May 25, 2007 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Jonathan Wells, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, will be speaking today (Friday, May 25), on the icons of neo-Darwinism and the role of DNA in living things, at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara. The full-size event poster is here. more
And Hector Avalos deserves tenure at ISU?
| May 24, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
The tenure denial of Guillermo Gonzalez by Iowa State University has been much discussed on this blog of late. The tenure of Hector Avalos, religious studies professor and militant atheist at Iowa State University, however, has yet to be broached here. So let’s do it. Avalos conducted a witch hunt of Guillermo Gonzalez back in… more
As the design revolution continues, Darwinism slips into irrelevance
| May 24, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Last month I pointed out the unwitting admission by some Darwinists that Darwinism is useless to modern medicine (and for that matter modern science). [see: Darwin dissed by doctors, and a design revolution continues at MIT]. This month I’m pleased that world’s most prestigious scientific journal, Nature, has published a letter from a biophysicist who… more
Evolution in the light of intelligent design
| May 24, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
I just put up an alphabetized list of topics covered by British physicist David Tyler, who blogs on a number of issues raised in the science literature that impact the intelligent design controversy – along with some of my own compilations (animations of life inside the cell, columnists discussing the issues, et cetera.). This is… more
Radiation-Eating Fungi
| May 23, 2007 | Posted by dacook under Intelligent Design |
Life’s capabilities continue to astound. Another assumption of mainstream science is overturned: Now we find that some kinds of fungi can grow very nicely, thank you, in very high radiation environments, and even appear to thrive, using radiation as an energy source. I wonder; in what sort of environment did these organisms evolve to account… more
Front Loading?! Say it isn’t so!
| May 23, 2007 | Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design |
Scientists have now found that the Hox genes necessary for tetrapod development is present in a primitive fish (a paddlefish). Here’s part of what they write: “Tetrapods have a second phase of Hox gene expression that happens later in development. During this second phase, hands and feet develop. Although this second phase is not known… more
How applied pugilistic ideology might be used against Guillermo Gonzalez at Iowa State – Part II of an interview with Dr. Ivan A. Conway Moore, Ph.E.
| May 23, 2007 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
How might Iowa State University President Geoffrey apply pugilistic ideology in his June 6th decision concerning tenuring of Christian Professor Guillermo Gonzalez? Dr. Moore offers his expert opinion. Read more MOORE… more
Introducing “Sewell’s Law”
| May 22, 2007 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
In an April 2, 2007 post, I noted the similarity between my second law argument (“the underlying principle behind the second law is that natural forces do not do macroscopically describable things which are extremely improbable from the microscopic point of view”), and Bill Dembski’s argument (in “The Design Inference”) that only intelligence can account… more