Monthly Archives: August 2007
Reviewers, reviewers: Booklist and Library Journal reviews of The Spiritual Brain
| August 25, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Reading reviews of a book one wrote is one of the best ways to study popular cultural assumptions about who you are and what you are trying to say: From the Booklist review Neuroscientist Beauregard is no flighty New-Ager or Creationist but, he says, one of a minority of neuroscientists who don’t adhere to strictly… more
Eugenie Scott defeats Ed Brayton
| August 24, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Creationism, Education, Humor, Intelligent Design |
[photo of Eugenie Scott from www.ExpelledTheMovie.com serving as one of the Class Officers of The Big Science Academy. She will have a starring role in the best pro-ID movie yet.] ID is a lineal descendent of William Paley’s Argument from Design (Paley 1803,) Eugenie Scott NCSE more
[Off Topic]Jesus desecrated in Malay newspaper. No riots in Kuala Lumpur?
| August 24, 2007 | Posted by The Scubaredneck under Off Topic, Religion |
Here’s an interesting but off-topic story. A newspaper in Kuala Lumpur ran a newspaper article showing a picture of Jesus smoking (a cigar or cigarette or something). The Malay Indians have expressed outrage and asked for apologies (which the newspaper has extended). The Malay Indian Congress has threatened to have the newspaper shut down but,… more
Dawkins Bravely Opposes Following the Herd (Unless It’s His Herd)
| August 24, 2007 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Readers of this blog will know that my favorite game is “spot the irony” (based upon Monty Python’s “spot the looney” game). Here a colleague from another listserve brings Richard Dawkins’ statement from “The Enemies of Reason” We’ve got to go back to the evidence and see what is true. We must favour verifiable evidence… more
Scientists should unite against threat from religion
| August 24, 2007 | Posted by The Scubaredneck under Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any sillier, now Sam Harris, author of “Letter to a Christian Nation” publishes a letter in Nature calling all good scientists to oppose religion at every turn. Unfortunately for Sam, the letter is frought with inaccuracies and mischaracterizations that would make PiZza Myers proud. He even goes so… more
The Open Society and Its Secular Enemies
| August 23, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Education, Philosophy, Religion |
The audacity of the secular humanists never ceases to amaze. Their upcoming conference titled “The Secular Society and Its Enemies” is an ill-conceived rip-off of Karl Popper’s THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES. Had they read and understood Popper, they would realize that they are the enemies to which he was referring. I encourage readers… more
David Klinghoffer Interview in NRO
| August 23, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Darwinism, Religion |
David Klinghoffer, author of the new book Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril (Doubleday), gives a disconcerting interview in National Review Online about life in Seattle. Here’s a sample: Lopez: What’s the point of a First Commandment protest rally? Klinghoffer: Oh, I attended one, though it wasn’t spoken of explicitly.… more
Fossil gorilla teeth push back human evolution even further
| August 23, 2007 | Posted by The Scubaredneck under Evolution |
Here is ad hoc, paradigm-driven, rationalistic science at its best: (paraphrase follows) ”We know that humans and gorillas had a common ancestor. This finding of an extremely early but largely modern gorilla means that the ancestor must have been much earlier than we thought.” This, along with the Egyptian footprints, ought to be telling a different story, it seems… more
Protected: Thomas Nagel Rips Apart Dover Decision
| August 23, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
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Randy Olson plugs Ben Stein’s EXPELLED (actually, the trailer for EXPELLED)
| August 22, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Responding to PZ Myers’ usual commenters, Randy Olson, of FLOCK OF DODOS fame, remarks: Are you folks really this clueless? You make me think of a baseball team that finishes the season in last place, then spends the off season criticizing all the other teams, as if that will address the problem. I’m sorry to… more
Rick Sternberg in Theaters , February 12, 2008
| August 22, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Trailers for the movie Expelled are now on the net. See: www.ExpelledTheMovie.com I was viewed as an intellectual terrorist. Rick Sternberg You can get your Rebel ID attire. It’s much better than those goofy Dawkins uniforms. more
The ultimate hot weather story … Stu Pivar, friend of late Steve Gould, suing PZ Myers
| August 21, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
It’s August, after all. Keep that in mind. Even so, I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it, but apparently, according to SciAm blogger Christopher Mims, Lifecode author Stuart Pivar is suing PZ Myers for libel. Yes, Stuart is the one who was friends with the late Stephen Jay Gould. Hat tip to… more
Mike Behe makes a useful distinction
| August 20, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Recently, an item in Nature News promised big things for the evolution of bacteria: Beneficial mutations in the bacterium Escherichia coli occur 1,000 times more frequently than previously predicted, according to research from a group in Portugal. In a study of E. coli populations of various different sizes, Isabel Gordo and her collaborators at the… more
[quote mine] Charles Darwin: “all has been intelligently designed”
| August 20, 2007 | Posted by scordova under Humor, Intelligent Design |
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 Charles Darwin, 1861 I think that would make a perfect textbook sticker. more
Egypt discovers what may be oldest human footprint
| August 20, 2007 | Posted by The Scubaredneck under Evolution |
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country’s western desert, the Arab country’s antiquities’ chief said on Monday. “This could go back about two million years,” said Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. “It could be… more
Intelligent Design Research: Proof of concept in 3-10 years say scientists
| August 20, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
While they don’t call it intelligent design research… that’s in fact what it is. In the article a scientist is quoted saying once a container (cell wall) is synthesized and nucleotides are added in the right proportions then Darwinian evolution will take care of the rest. Yeah, right. Darwinian processes won’t do jack diddly squat.… more
Comments from Mike Behe in the aftermath of the publication of Edge of Evolution
| August 19, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Following on the fact that a Canadian writer, Cameron Wybrow, got a positive review of Mike Behe’s Edge of Evolution published, I think it is worth introducing two things this evening: Go here for more. more
Canadian writer gets positive review of Edge of Evolution published in Philadelphia Inquirer
| August 19, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Cameron Wybrow wrote me a while back wanting to know why most legacy Canadian mainstream media will not publish anything about the intelligent design controversy beyond the often incompetent or politically motivated stuff that the New York Times would put out. I said it was my guess that the legacy media would go under before… more
Thoughts for blogs I almost don’t have time to write
| August 17, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Nobody else is apparently blogging here, deep in August, so here goes: – Did Dawkins actually read Behe’s Edge of Evolution ? Someone (hat tip to whoever) has pointed out that the New York Times review does not read as though he did. Hence the irrelevant riff on dog breeding. The basic problem, in my… more
Another Toronto journalist takes swat at Darwinists (or Darwinoids)
| August 15, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
One of the most interesting journalists in Toronto is a friend of mine, David Warren, who – as if he did not have enough troubles – has gotten sick of bloviating Darwinists and decided to take them on. At least I am not alone any more. Far from it. Writing to friends, Warren notes, “I… more