Monthly Archives: November 2007
The core is the definition of science itself
| November 30, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Your responses to this condensed version of an editorial would be appreciated. (This item is available free as a special feature.) “Anti-Darwin activism is alive and well. The most insidious movement promotes ‘intelligent design’ (ID) – the notion that some features in nature are best explained by an intelligent cause – as an alternative scientific theory… more
From the files: Why intelligent design is going to win, revisited
| November 30, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Douglas Kern at Tech Central Station warned, in 2005 that intelligent design is going to win. And why was that? He starts with the claim that ID types are more likely to be fertile than others. I will not hash that out here except to say this: If it means YOU, you might want to… more
History lesson: Eozoon – the dawn – and dusk – of the bogus dawn animal
| November 30, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design, The Design of Life |
A golden fossil turned to dross? According to Natural Resources Canada: To many mid-Victorian geologists and paleontologists these laminated green and grey rock specimens from altered limestones of the Canadian Shield of Ontario and Quebec were the most important fossils ever found because they constituted evidence of the existence of complex life forms deep in… more
Reflections on key recent events: Eminent science journal advises meat puppets to get over “image of God” rubbish
| November 30, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Nothing in the intelligent design controversy is more instructive than a convinced Darwinist making his true position very, very clear. This happened again recently, I see, when Britain’s elite science journal Nature responded to US Senator Brownback, who had written in the New York Times (May 31, 2007). Pointing out that – when he famously… more
Paul Davies on the Dennis Prager Show (or, A Second Look at the Second Law)
| November 29, 2007 | Posted by GilDodgen under Science |
Paul Davies was recently interviewed on the Dennis Prager show, and a caller challenged Davies with the neg-entropic nature of living systems. Paul’s response was the usual: local, open systems can experience decreases in entropy, as long as the overall system experiences an entropy increase. He gave the example of a refrigerator, which can make… more
New ID Briefing Packet for Educators
| November 28, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Check out Discovery Institute’s “The Theory of Intelligent Design: A Briefing Packet for Educators.” As part of its response to the PBS-NOVA documentary “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design,” Discovery Institute just released this packet (for free download, see below). The packet contains numerous resources for educators to effectively teach about biological origins in public schools. These… more
Guillermo Gonzalez — the latest
| November 28, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Backers battle ISU professor’s tenure denial By LISA ROSSI • REGISTER AMES BUREAU • November 28, 2007 Ames, Ia. — The fight will rage on over Iowa State University astronomy professor Guillermo Gonzalez, who advocated for intelligent design, the theory that disputes parts of evolution, and lost a bid for tenure. Advocates for Gonzalez said… more
Flowering Plant Big Bang
| November 28, 2007 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
See the story here. “From the ubiquitous daisy to the fantastical orchid, flowering plant species are as diverse as they are numerous. It turns out that these bloomers went through an evolutionary “Big Bang” of sorts some 130 million years ago . . . “Flowering plants today comprise around 400,000 species,” said Pam Soltis, curator… more
Apology to Prof Lawrence Krauss
| November 28, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
I would like to apologise to Prof Krauss for a posting which inferred, based entirely on the quotes in a Telegraph UK interview(see here), that he had asserted that observing the universe had adversely changed the universe. Unfortunately the New Scientist paper upon which the Telegraph article is based is not available on line without subscription.… more
News Release: Harvard’s XVIVO Video
| November 27, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Molecular Animations |
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News Release: Harvard’s XVIVO Video By William A. Dembski | originally posted November 26, 2007 | updated November 27, 2007 Back in September of 2006 I announced at my blog UncommonDescent that a “breathtaking video” titled “The Inner Life of Cell” had just come out (see www.uncommondescent.com/…/the-inner-life-of-a-cell). The video was so good that I wanted… more
Vestigial organs, anyone? The humble appendix begs to differ
| November 26, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Despite its name – which means “hanger on” – the human appendix works for a living, according to recent research (helping kill germs). As British physicist David Tyler notes, despite the claim of evolutionary biologists from Darwin to the present day that the appendix is junk left over from evolution, the appendix actually has a… more
Darwinism predicts “X.” Oh, you tell me the opposite of “X” happened? Well Darwinism predicted that too.
| November 26, 2007 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Marx (Karl, not Groucho) predicted that under capitalism workers were bound to become more and more dissatisfied and therefore a workers’ revolution was inevitable. When workers’ conditions actually improved under capitalism, Lenin modified the theory — of course the workers’ lot is improving; the capitalists are bribing them to keep them pacified, just what the… more
E. O. Wilson on ID
| November 26, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Here’s what E. O. Wilson writes in THE NEW SCIENTIST: . . . Many who accept the fact of evolution cannot, however, on religious grounds, accept the operation of blind chance and the absence of divine purpose implicit in natural selection. They support the alternative explanation of intelligent design. The reasoning they offer is not… more
Melanie Phillips on Secular Fanatics
| November 26, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Religion, Science |
The real nutters are the fanatics who despise religious belief by Melanie Phillips 26th November 2007 . . . the antipathy to religious faith goes far wider and deeper than fear of terrorism. It is the outcome of a dominant secularism which claims that faith and reason are irreconcilable, and that belief in a supernatural… more
Time Magazine: Science is Close to Demonstrating Morality is a Function of Brain Activity
| November 25, 2007 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
From the December 3 issue of Time: ”Morality and empathy are writ deep in our genes. Alas, so are savagery and bloodlust. Science is now learning what makes us both noble and terrible.” “The deeper that science drills into the substrata of behavior, the harder it becomes to preserve the vanity that we are unique… more
7 Minute Expelled Preview
| November 25, 2007 | Posted by Patrick under Culture, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
The Sri Aurobindo International Center in India
| November 25, 2007 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
The Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, in Pondicherry, India, has recently launched a new on-line journal Anti-Matters , which naturally has a strong Eastern flavor, but is solidly anti-materialist and anti-Darwinist; it provides further evidence that ID, at least the rejection of Darwinism, is not a uniquely American Christian phenomenon. The editor, Ulrich Mohrhoff… more
Taking Science on Faith
| November 25, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
SCIENCE, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. The problem is that science has its own faith-based belief system. All science proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and intelligible way, that the universe is governed by… more
We have the hat, but where’s that rabbit? High levels of information in “simple” life forms
| November 23, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
In Tuesday night, a guest speaker spoke to my adult night school class in why there is an intelligent design controversy. He talked about the central problem of evolution: The fact that high levels of information are present in life forms that are supposed to be early and simple. Some guests attended the talk, and one… more
The Origin of Life: Unsolved problem now shopped to off-market solutions?
| November 22, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
In a most interesting recent article in Scientific American (November 19, 2007), origin of life expert Paul Davies coments: The origin of life is one of the great unsolved problems of science. Nobody knows how, where or when life originated. About all that is known for certain is that microbial life had established itself on… more