Monthly Archives: August 2007
Why Darwinism is losing – the big picture
| August 31, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Just this morning I was reflecting on the curious case of Misshelver, whose response to Mike Behe’s Edge of Evolution was to misshelve it in the bookstore. She is, of course, the popular culture version of the academics who need to get rid of gifted astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez – not because he is incompetent, but… more
Fewer than half of climate scientists endorse anthropogenic global warming
| August 31, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
A recent survey of climate change articles in science journals finds fewer than half of the authors endorse anthropogenic global warming theories. The so-called consensus has now collapsed to a minority position. I love being right. Linked by The Drudge Report: Breaking: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory DAILYTECH SURVEY:… more
What if we DID find irreducibly complex biological features?
| August 30, 2007 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
In any debate on Intelligent Design, there is a question I have long wished to see posed to ID opponents: “If we DID discover some biological feature that was irreducibly complex, to your satisfication and to the satisfaction of all reasonable observers, would that justify the design inference?” (Of course, I believe we have found… more
Exhuming the Peppered Mummy
| August 30, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Paul Nelson highlighted new developments in the Peppered Myth story here. Now Jonathan Wells, a scientist at the Discovery Institute, offers a more detailed analysis in Exhuming the Peppered Mummy. Enjoy!!! A friend of mine tells me that the only things he remembers about evolution from his high school biology course are photos of black… more
“Rationalist” encyclopedia stumbles onto non-materialist neuroscience
| August 29, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Rationalwiki is an online encyclopedia struggling to be born. Judging from the copy I saw August 29, 2007 (which will probably change), it appears to be written by a group of people who see themselves as the guardians of reason, progress, and enlightenment, against “the anti-science movement” and “crank ideas”. Nowadays, theirs is a pretty… more
Alister McGrath Swept off the Cutting Room Floor
| August 29, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Religion, Science |
Early this year I described how Richard Dawkins interviewed Alister McGrath for the BBC production THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL and then decided to leave him on the cutting room floor (go here). That interview is available at Google Video here. In watching it, ask yourself if it would have made for a less biased… more
Flash! Stu Pivar is unsuing PZ Myers
| August 28, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
I just heard from a source I think reliable that Stuart Pivar has dropped his lawsuit against PZ Myers. ‘Bout time, too. I stand by my comment of earlier today: Incidentally, I do not expect PZ to lose his pajamas to the Pivar writ. Defamation suits generally require a demonstration of harm. PZ verbally assaults… more
Intelligent design east: What might it look like?
| August 28, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama , was chosen the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan Buddhists as a small child in 1940. (He was believed to be the reincarnation of the Thirteenth Lama.) After a failed 1959 revolt against the 1949 Chinese takeover of Tibet, his government has been exiled at Dharamsala, India,… more
Renowned Technology Pioneer Trashes neo-Darwinism (part 1)
| August 28, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Intelligent Design |
Rob Crowther interviews renowned pioneer of technology Walt Ruloff in Expelling Dogma: Executive Producer Walt Ruloff and Expelled(part 1). Ruloff relates how “disruptive technologies” advanced the high-tech industry and how neo-Darwinism is a science stopper because it prevents the evolution of “disruptive technologies”. He expresses the highly negative consequences of neo-Darwinism to the advancement of… more
ERV’s challenge to Michael Behe
| August 28, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
[continued from Dr. D.A. Cook's thread, Where Did Sea Anemones Get Human Genes?] Michael Behe has certainly given his critics a thrashing at his Amazon weblog. When I saw Mike taking Ken Miller to task for Miller mischaracterizing Lipids as Proteins (a sophomoric mistake by Miller), I knew Mike was slamming the best the Darwinist… more
Michael Majerus: Peppered Moths DO Rest On Tree Trunks, And Incidentally, God Doesn’t Exist
| August 28, 2007 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Last week at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) meeting in Sweden, Michael Majerus of Cambridge University — one of world’s leading experts on the peppered moth, of textbook fame — gave a plenary lecture where he argued that his observations over the past 7 years, in his own garden in the UK, had… more
Where Did Sea Anemones Get Human Genes?
| August 27, 2007 | Posted by dacook under Intelligent Design |
Another surprise for Darwinists has been found in the genome of the lowly, primitive sea anemone. In an article published in Science and summarized here we discover that: The newly decoded DNA of a few-centimeter-tall sea anemone looks surprisingly similar to our own, a team led by Nicholas Putnam and Daniel Rokhsar from the U.S.… more
Improved symbol for the Clergy Letter Project
| August 27, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Culture, Humor, Religion |
The NCSE is shamelessly pandering to religious interests to advance their cause, and because I really like the NCSE, I’d like to help them out in their recent campaign to support The Clergy Letter Project. The Clergy Letter Project is an attempt to recruit religious groups to support Darwin. To that end, let me suggest… more
Darwinist threat to sue pro-ID filmmakers? Friend of the studio thinks they have no case
| August 26, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
I just heard from a contact who knows his way around that studio who saw my recent post about the anonymous warning that Darwinists might sue the makers of the Ben Stein Expelled film. The film does not flatter them, and perhaps they’d want to at least stop it from opening on Darwin’s birthday next… more
Calculating God author Rob Sawyer wins top China sci-fi prize
| August 26, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Canadian science fiction writer Rob Sawyer, author of The Calculating God, which explores the idea of intelligent design, has won China’s top science fiction prize. CHENGDU, CHINA, 26 AUGUST 2007: Robert J. Sawyer of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, today won China’s top science-fiction award, the Galaxy Award, in the category “Most Popular Foreign Author of the… more
Darwin’s Doubts Redux
| August 26, 2007 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
A few days ago Sal posted the following quote from Darwin: From Letter 3154  Darwin, C. R. to Herschel, J. F. W., 23 May [1861] One cannot look at this Universe with all living productions & man without believing that all has been intelligently designed As Jack Krebs pointed out (and Sal freely admited, which… more
Musings on the Creative Impulse
| August 26, 2007 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Yesterday a friend and I rode our bikes up to the top of Vail Pass, and when we got back down we stopped in Breckenridge for lunch. After lunch we decided to walk around Breckenridge for a while, and we soon found ourselves in a wonderful little art gallery on Main Street. One large bronze… more
Can Ben Stein’s Expelled be sued by angry Darwinists?
| August 25, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
That’s the warning I received from an anonymous “wellwisher” (?) here at the Post-Darwinist: I do hopw that the makers of “Expelled” are aware of the lawsuits launched against the makers of “What the Bleep…”, given that they obtained their interviews with several biologists unders false pretenses. I asked a contact at the studio, and… more
How To Teach the Controversy Legally
| August 25, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Courts, Creationism, Education, Legal |
I highly recommend this from the Discovery Institute: (Free Video) How To Teach the Controversy Legally (DvD Order Details) How To Teach the Controversy Legally more
Creationist will vote against teaching ID and creationism
| August 25, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Creationism, Education, Intelligent Design |
I can only speak for myself, and not the rest of those at UD, but in my opinion, voting against any mandate to teach ID or creation science in the public schools is the right thing to do. As much as I advocate that ID is correct, it is not the time to teach it… more