Monthly Archives: January 2008
Ian Musgrave’s “Intelligent Design Challenge”
| January 31, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
I received the following email dated 1.31.08 from Ian Musgrave: Dear Dr. Dembski Determining where a genome has been produced or altered by an intelligent designer is a matter of some importance. Consider the claims that the HIV virus was engineered as a biowarfare weapon, or the concern that virulence genes from other organisms could… more
DNA is the Blueprint of All Life
| January 31, 2008 | Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design |
Here’s an article from PhysOrg saying something that has been said on this blog for years. The experimenters were working with gold crystals, trying to build different structures. Here’s some of what they write in this summary article: “He likens the process to building a house. Starting with basic materials such as bricks, wood, siding,… more
Scientific Consensus: The Last Bastion of Scientific Uncertainty
| January 31, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
I was reading an exchange on anthropogenic global warming between Dr. George Somero, the David & Lucile Packard Professor in Marine Sciences at the Hopkins Marine Station (pro) and Dr. Roy Spencer, recipient of NASA’s Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and principle research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (con) where the usual… more
Details Of Nuclear Pore Complex With Spin
| January 31, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
(Credit: Image courtesy of Rockefeller University) From ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2008) A cell’s membrane-bound nucleus uses hundreds to thousands of nuclear pores as its gatekeepers, selective membrane channels that are responsible for regulating the material that goes to and from a cell’s DNA. Rockefeller scientists have nailed down the first complete molecular picture of this huge,… more
Dr. Geoff Simmons vs PZ Myers Debate
| January 30, 2008 | Posted by dacook under Intelligent Design |
I’ve just received the following notice from PSSI (Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity), of which I am a member. I’m taking the liberty of posting it up here in case anyone else is interested in this debate. Fresh from our What Darwin Didn’t Know events in Spain, Dr. Geoff Simmons, author of What Darwin… more
Reminder about “Who Designed the Designer?”
| January 30, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Permutations of the question “Who designed the designer?” are trite, easily addressed, and if you read the moderation rules you’ll find that comments using this and other trite arguments are deleted. There is not enough data to make any determination of who designed the designer. When and if we can identify the designer of organic… more
Ignorance: Inspired and Promoted by Mainstream Media
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
A family friend, who is a brilliant electrical engineer, recently spent some time at our home for a holiday get-together. The topic of ID came up and he asked me how I could possibly have bought into such a silly idea. I quizzed him about what he knew about ID. I asked him about which… more
Thought for the Day
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
From Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: Thus the question “Why science?” leads back to the moral problem: Why have morality at all when life, nature, and history are “not moral”? No doubt, those who are truthful in that audacious and ultimate sense that is presupposed by the faith in science thus affirm another world than the world… more
A book for your local school library, just in time for Darwin Day …
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here’s an interesting recent book, just the thing for Darwin Day, I guess: Apes or Angels?: Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race by Cornelius J. Troost. Here’s his publisher’s blurb, abbreviated a bit: APES or ANGELS?: It speaks the truth about Darwin’s views on human origins and race. Contrary to the beliefs of most academicians… more
Prediction, prediction, who’ll bet the RENT on a prediction?
| January 28, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Recently, a hoo-haw among some Darwinists vastly spiked traffic to one of my blogs, The Post-Darwinist, out of all proportion to usual interest levels. It had to do with some predictions I had made. People who can force the taxpayer to fund their activities are generally mega rotten at understanding the point of view of people… more
The alignment nightmare (part 1)
| January 28, 2008 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Alignment is probably the most difficult and least understood component of a phylogenetic analysis from sequence data. – David L. Swofford and Gary J. Olsen, chapter on Phylogeny Reconstruction, in Molecular Systematics (Sinauer, 1990, eds. D.M. Hillis and C. Moritz), p. 417. Twenty years ago, as a 2nd-year graduate student, I attended the first Molecular… more
Understanding Intelligent Design Theory – The Seoul Times
| January 28, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Intelligent Design |
Posted to give glimpses of international interest in ID. Korea appears to allow significant freedom of speech and inquiry. ———————————- Special Contribution By Babu G. Ranganathan The Seoul Times, Global Views Jan 28, 2008 Understanding Intelligent Design Theory Imagine finding a planet where robots are programmed so that they can make other robots just like… more
Design of Life: Extinction – and so, good night, the final curtain …
| January 27, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Textbooks often don’t discuss extinction – the death of all members of a species – in any detail. No surprise there, it’s a frustrating and depressing topic. Frustrating because museums would bid billions to bring back a live tyrannosaur. And depressing because good answers are often not available. So discussion can lurch dangerously into the… more
OOL is a Sticky Situation
| January 26, 2008 | Posted by PaV under Biology, Evolution, Self-Org. Theory |
Experimenters have recently found that genes–whereby they mean particular sequences of DNA–can “find” one another without the intervention of proteins or other factors. It appears to be strictly an effect caused by electrical charges along the DNA strand; the longer the ‘gene’ (that is, sequence length), the greater theapparent ease in ‘finding’ one another. The… more
Thanks for Your Support … Evolution of M&M’s
| January 24, 2008 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
Thank you for your support! Dembski’s copyright infringement charges have been dismissed and, after all the shenanigans of you ID crazies, I am back in North Dakota [Details Here]. I now recognize we must all continue to contribute to the evolutionary process. Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty… more
Eugenie Scott has competition
| January 24, 2008 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD” Dr. Caroline Crocker Named First Executive Director of the IDEA Center Dr. Caroline Crocker Named First Executive Director of the IDEA Center – January 15, 2008 Dr. Caroline Crocker, a biologist featured in the upcoming documentary film Expelled, has been hired as the Executive Director… more
Snow Festival or Snow Storm?
| January 24, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Just For Fun |
“The temperature in Harbin reaches forty below zero, both Fahrenheit and Celsius, and stays below freezing nearly half the year. The city is actually further north than notoriously cold Vladivostok, Russia, just 300 miles away. So what does one do here every winter? Hold an outdoor festival, of course! Rather than suffer the cold, the… more
Guess the Author
| January 24, 2008 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
And don’t use Google, you cheaters! That’s not guessing. Both passages — arguments about possible modes of evolutionary change — were written by the same scientist. He is offering his own view, not expounding that of others. Sample 1: In real life, major evolutionary innovations perhaps had to wait for radical mutational ‘inventions’ that fundamentally… more
Join the Expelled
| January 24, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Click here to sign yourself up as a volunteer to help promote the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed Not sure? Watch the movie trailer below and then decide if you should help get the message out. P.S. This YouTube trailer is a little dated. The movie is slated for April release in all major movie… more
Run-up to EXPELLED: Ben Stein Hosts Stanford Debate — Hitchens vs. Richards
| January 23, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science |
DEBATE: Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design Sunday, January 27th at 4pm PST, Stanford University WHAT: Stanford University will play host to a debate entitled Atheism vs. Theism & the Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design. This debate is being organized by student groups at Stanford: IDEA Club at Stanford,The Stanford Review… more