Monthly Archives: December 2007
Antony Flew – did he really write There IS a God?
| December 31, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
In late October, celebrated (former) atheist Antony Flew’s long-awaited There IS a God, with Roy Varghese, appeared. It is an elegant little book, as one might expect from a British philosopher. Its sparkling clarity does more than illuminate Antony Flew’s change of mind on the subject of God. Authorship controversy? Well, yes, some argue that… more
Sunday fun: Humor in the intelligent design controversy
| December 30, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Studying all the time? That’s alarming. Quit before your brain develops a saddle shape from the sheer weight of your learning. Take a break and have some fun. more
Evolution and the NFL theorems
| December 30, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Ronald Meester CLICK HERE FOR THE PAPER Department of Mathematics, VU-University Amsterdam, “William Dembski (2002) claimed that the NoFreeLunch-theorems from op- timization theory render Darwinian biological evolution impossible. I argue that the NFL-theorems should be interpreted not in the sense that the models can be used to draw any conclusion about the real biological evolution (and certainly… more
Today at The Design of Life blog: How did caterpillars start to become butterflies?
| December 29, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Or perhaps one should ask, how did butterflies start to become caterpillars? Caution: Some pretty radical theorizing here. Also: Today at the Post-Darwinist Alley Oop, if you lie to me one more time … more
“Making Space for Time” – Is cosmic order evidence for ID?
| December 28, 2007 | Posted by DLH under Intelligent Design, Science |
Making Space for Time – Physicists meet to puzzle out why time flows one way. Scott Dodd. Scientific American, January 2008 p 26,27,28. This article cites physicists invoking multiverses to explain high order in the early cosmos – and that less order would have prevented universes from surviving or evolving to support intelligent life.… more
Design of Life: Molecular clock – right twice a day?
| December 27, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
2006 and 2007 have been years in which a number of key science papers addressed things we know – that ain’t so. One story is the serious challenges to the long contested “molecular clock” theory. [ ... ] In the science literature, many adjustments are offered to make the fossil record and molecular data match.… more
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin?
| December 26, 2007 | Posted by Flannery under Biography, Darwinism |
Another Darwin Biography Ecclesiastes tells us, “Of making books there is no end,” and nowhere is that a greater truism than in the ever growing corpus of Darwiniana. At present writing OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), the world’s largest bibliographic database, lists 14,129 books and articles with occurrences of Darwin, Darwinism, or Darwinian in the… more
Debates in evolution: What if the tape of life were replayed? Would humans result?
| December 25, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Stephen Jay Gould, the great American paleontologist, liked to say – particularly in A Wonderful Life, that if the tape of evolution were replayed a million times, a species like ours would not necessarily evolve. He made this point in, and a debate rages to this day about whether he meant chance, as Daniel Dennett… more
Today at Design of Life: Channel your inner fish?
| December 24, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Tiktaalik, an early fossil fish with sturdy forefins, helps illustrate the difference between the approach of scientists who are convinced Darwinists and that of scientists who view the problems of evolution primarily in terms of information theory (intelligent design). The Darwinist says, There! – we have found a missing link, so now we KNOW! what happened… more
Canine Speciation in Bucksnort
| December 24, 2007 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
Blame placed on discarded Mutation Paste. Details at TheBRITES.org more
Guillermo Gonzalez: Is Earth an accident or a staging platform for exploration of the universe?
| December 23, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
You’d think astronomers would be happy to sponsor the latter idea but then you must have been out of town when Guillermo Gonzalez’s story broke. Read Denyse O’Leary’s interview with Gonzalez here. Also, Gonzalez on intelligent design – both non-falsifiable and already falsified? Howzzat? Also: Defeat organized stupidity. Buy and read The Design of Life! more
Excerpts from the Dennis Prager show: The central dogma in neuroscience? And at least one reason why it isn’t true.
| December 23, 2007 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Bill Dembski asked me to post some excerpts from this interview that Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard and I did with American radio host Dennis Prager, on the difference between the mind and the brain (as set out in our book The Spiritual Brain, Harper One, 2007). I finally got a chance to transcribe a bit… more
On the Origin of Species in 8 pages
| December 23, 2007 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
HERE IS THE LINK A taste “INTRODUCTION When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle’, I began patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts, which seemed to throw light on the origin of species. I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed here… more
Darwinist Negative-Review Spam Campaign Backfires at Amazon
| December 22, 2007 | Posted by GilDodgen under Biology, Darwinism, The Design of Life |
Last week, The Design of Life: Discovering Signs of Intelligence In Biological Systems was in the 17,000-20,000 range at Amazon.com. Since the Darwinist-sponsored negative-review spam campaign (with “reviews” written mostly by people who obviously had not read the book), and as of this writing, the book is sitting at about 3,000, and is: #1 in… more
Atheists Lose Wager
| December 22, 2007 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
Must greet everyone with “Merry Christmas” and wear Expelled T-Shirts. Details at TheBRITES.org. more
EXPELLED Sticker Contest
| December 21, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under The Design of Life |
In my last post, I mentioned the prospect that THE DESIGN OF LIFE would, with the help of our Darwinist friends, become a companion volume to Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE ALLOWED (www.expelledthe movie.com — check out also www.getexpelled.com). In the event that THE DESIGN OF LIFE becomes such a companion volume, a colleague sent… more
The Upside of Amazon Manipulation
| December 20, 2007 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, The Design of Life |
THE DESIGN OF LIFE is being shamelessly manipulated by the Darwinists at Amazon (go here). Not only are they posting negative reviews that give no indication that the reviewers have read the book but they are also voting up their negative reviews so that these are the first to be seen by potential buyers. The… more
Let’s open minds, textbooks to intelligent design theories
| December 20, 2007 | Posted by DLH under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
A thoughtful article by a perceptive engineer. A good example of priming the Origins Debate pump. —————————— Let’s open minds, textbooks to intelligent design theories Intricacies of Earth life-forms, microscopes challenge evolution ideas Gordon Rose, Letter, Indianapolis Star Dec. 15, 2007 “In our school systems today, science, with its dramatic and continual advancement in knowledge,… more
> 400 Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming: US Senate Report
| December 20, 2007 | Posted by DLH under Global Warming, Off Topic, Science |
How do science skeptics and those introducing paradigm shifts get their papers published in the face of politically correct coercion by a dogmatic majority and lemming press? Persistence, and banding together may help. Following is a fascinating report by the US Senate that may result in a critical mass begin to form against the politically… more
Why Global Warming Pundits Are So Shrill…
| December 20, 2007 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
Their hypothesis featuring the boogeyman Carbon Dioxide is falling apart before their eyes. Hurricane activity set record lows the past two years right after the alarmists shamelessly tried capitalizing on the 2005 killers Katrina and Rita by saying it’ll only get worse from here. There hasn’t been any net global warming in the past 9… more