Monthly Archives: January 2008
SETI, Drake, and Fermi
| January 17, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the interviews of Dembski, Gonzalez, and Behe in the recent article here. I wanted to talk about something Gonzalez said in the interview. Specifically the transformation from ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) optimist to ETI pessimist. I’ve undergone a similar transformation for the same reasons. Indeed, when I received my monthly Scientific… more
Interviews with Dembski, Behe, and Gonzalez
| January 17, 2008 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Intelligent Design |
These interviews were originally conducted by Mario A. Lopez, with collaboration from Eduardo Arroyo Pardo for the Pro-ID Spanish website, Ciencia Alternativa. http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1438 http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1451 http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1449 These also appear in El Manifiesto from Madrid, Spain: http://elmanifiesto.com/articulos.asp?idarticulo=808 http://elmanifiesto.com/articulos.asp?idarticulo=1396 Enjoy! more
Spread the word – Evolution is a scientific fact
| January 16, 2008 | Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design |
The BRITES joins Nature and the The National Academy of Sciences calling for all science organisations to preach the word of evolution by natural selection. MORE more
Science and politics: Key lessons from the stem cell controversy
| January 15, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Culture |
Ron Reagan (son of Ronald) called it “The greatest breakthrough in our or any lifetime.” John Edwards, 2004 US vice-presidential hopeful and part time prophet, predicted that Christopher “Superman” Reeve would arise and walk —provided that religious fanatics did not stop the progress of science. And when Bush nixed new funding in 2001, Newsweek’s science… more
ID’s “predictive prowess”
| January 14, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under The Design of Life |
A producer from one of the national talking heads programs is discussing with FTE’s PR firm whether to interview me or Jonathan Wells regarding our new book THE DESIGN OF LIFE. The producer has some reservations about interviewing us: Hi [snip], As I’m sure you know, one of the main claims any scientific theory can… more
Design of Life blog: Big Bangs in biology
| January 14, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Apparently, it’s not just physics that starts things off with a bang. Life forms have done that too, and with equal drama. Mammals, birds, and flowers have their big bang events. But here’s the difficulty: The science literature, as well as the popular science press, assumes that an adequate fossil record must show a long, gradual… more
A Fact is a Fact is a Fact of Course; Unless it’s the Amazing Mr. Darwin
| January 13, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In the “Hail Darwin” link under “Additional Descent” we are told that the National Academy of Sciences’ ”Science, Evolution and Creationism” gives the following epistemological definition of “fact”: “In science, a ‘fact’ typically refers to an observation, measurement, or other form of evidence that can be expected to occur the same way under similar circumstances. ” So… more
An Irony: Will Attempts to Enforce Darwinian Orthodoxy Serve to Diminish Public Trust in Legitimate Science?
| January 11, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Darwinism, Science |
This year should be an exciting one for ID. It sounds like Expelled, The Movie will have very wide distribution in major theaters all across the nation in April. One sad aspect of the Darwinian propaganda machine is that, once it is exposed to the general public for what it is (materialistic philosophy pretending to… more
Bill Greene Rips Wikipedia a New One
| January 11, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
The Bill Greene Show Bill rips Wikipedia for about 5 minutes straight about how its liberal editors censor stuff they don’t personally agree with. He says anything remotely positive related to Intelligent Design is quickly and completely censored. Bill then goes on to interview Mark Mathis, the producer of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”. more
Today at Design of Life: The Avalon explosion: Another intricate, Darwin-busting puzzle
| January 11, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
Contrary to popular misconceptions, the history of life shows no steady Darwinian march of progress, and the recent discovery about the Avalon explosion is yet another blow to an idea that is kept alive only by ideology, not evidence (and perhaps because the Darwin bicentennial budgets have already been spent?): Excerpts: Because the Ediacaran creatures… more
Blind cave fish see the light
| January 11, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Two blind fish can make sighted offspring. “The offspring of crossbred blind cave fish see like their surface-dwelling cousins. The results in Current Biology 1, show that the two populations took different evolutionary paths to blindness. “We’ve basically shown that these different populations have converged upon the same outward appearance independently, and that they use… more
Deep Blue Never Is (Blue, That Is)
| January 10, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
In the comment thread to my last post there was a lot of discussion about computers and their relation to intelligence. This is my understanding about computers. They are just very powerful calculators, but they do not “think” in any meaningful sense. By this I mean that computer hardware is nothing but an electro-mechanical device… more
Arguments from Incredulity
| January 10, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
We often hear that ID is an argument from incredulity. At this point I would tend to agree. That said, arguments from incredulity aren’t necessarily wrong but in fact are rather reliable and employed constantly and consistently by everyone every day. Let’s take the example that Granville Sewell offered in his most recent post here.… more
Spread the word – Evolution is a scientific fact
| January 9, 2008 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Nature wants all science organisations to preach the word of evolution by natural selection. “Evolution is a scientific fact, and every organization whose research depends on it should explain why. Three cheers for the US National Academy of Sciences for publishing an updated version of its booklet Science, Evolution, and Creationism (see www.nap.edu/sec). The document… more
The Schrodinger Equation
| January 9, 2008 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
The goal of materialists is to reduce mind to biology, biology to chemistry, chemistry to physics, and physics to mathematics; they have obviously made considerable progress. At the very bottom of this chain, however, lies quite a surprise–the Schrodinger equation of quantum mechanics. A mathematics text I am reading states that the Schrodinger partial differential… more
DCA – The Plot Sickens
| January 9, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under DCA, Off Topic |
About a year ago the chemical compound dichloroacetate was in the news as a potential miracle cure for cancer shortly after a scientist at the University of Edmonton published experimental results showing human cancers melting off of lab rats in a matter of a few weeks with virtually no adverse side effects. As it turned… more
Another Explosion of Life: Avalon
| January 8, 2008 | Posted by dacook under Biology, Intelligent Design |
Similar to the Cambrian explosion of animal life, it appears there was an earlier similar explosion for plants, at least the Ediacaran variety. In what the ScienceNOW Daily News is calling Another Big Bang for Biology, the oldest assemblage of macroscopic life forms on earth, Ediacaran plants, appeared suddenly and fully diversified. This plant life… more
Today at The Design of Life: Can animals do math?
| January 8, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life |
How much should we believe of what we read about animal number sense? Hype aside, the evidence points away from the assumption that abstract mathematics is simply the outcome of squabbles over bones. There is a gap that is simply not bridged by the studies of animal number sense, nor do available studies shed much… more
Intelligent design: Do the “unfalsifiables” get along with the “falsifieds”? If so, WHY?
| January 7, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Now and then I am assailed by people who insist that “intelligent design is not falsifiable.” Well, put that way, it isn’t, right? Politics, economics, and religion are not falsifiable either. Anything can escape falsification if it is put in broad enough terms. That’s because we all have overlapping – but not identical – definitions… more
Epistemology. It’s What You Know
| January 7, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
BarryA’s definition of a philosopher: A bearded guy in a tweed jacket and Birkenstocks who writes long books explaining how it is impossible to communicate through language without apparently realizing the irony of expressing that idea through, well, language. Seriously, I have read a lot of philosophy, and I find some of the philosophers’ ideas… more