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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Melkikh’s Improbability of Darwinism and deterministic evolution model

February 29, 2008 Posted by DLH under Darwinism, Evolution
26 Comments

Is is said that in the USA one can criticize politics but not evolution, while in Russia one can criticize evolution but not politics. The Russian author Alexey Melkikh provides the most spectacular improbability of Darwinian evolution that I have seen. He then proposes a mode of evolution without mutation. As some readers have asked… more

Grape Expectations and Interpreting Evidence

February 29, 2008 Posted by GilDodgen under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Science
10 Comments

From The Boston Globe: Can expectations influence how we judge the evidence? SCIENTISTS AT CALTECH and Stanford recently published the results of a peculiar wine tasting. They provided people with cabernet sauvignons at various price points, with bottles ranging from $5 to $90. Although the tasters were told that all the wines were different, the… more

Is God Really Good?

February 29, 2008 Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design
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The latest issue of the on-line journal Anti-Matters published by the Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education in Pondicherry, India, includes reviews of Wells and Dembski’s “The Design of Life” and Mike Gene’s “The Design Matrix”, as well as my article “Is God Really Good?”. How is this question relevant to ID? The article makes… more

Finch Biography Now Available

February 29, 2008 Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design
2 Comments

Read the review and insightful excerpts about me at TheBRITES.org. more

Francis Collins speaks at Stanford

February 29, 2008 Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design
22 Comments

“5th Feb 2008 Dr Francis Collins discussed his views on science, faith, and the ease with which the two can be reconciled through a rejection of extremes, and an embrace of “harmony in the middle”. Collins emphasized that science does not provide us with the right instruments to prove the existence of God because God… more

How Evolution will be Taught Someday

February 28, 2008 Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design
40 Comments

In any debate, it is always good strategy to acknowledge your opponent’s strongest points up front, effectively taking those points off the table. The evolutionist’s strongest points are the fact that science has been so successful to date in finding “natural” (unintelligent) causes in other areas of science, and the fact that the development of… more

Today at The Mindful Hack

February 26, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
5 Comments

North America undergoing religious revolution? No way. Atheism is not growing significantly. Anti-depressant are definitely NOT the death of the soul, as Tom Wolfe thought Templeton Foundation offers L2 million pounds to find a non-spiritual source of belief in God more

Wanted: More Greenhouse Gases

February 26, 2008 Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic
21 Comments

Global average temperature in the past 12 months plummeted precipitously erasing all the global warming in the previous century. Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling Well now, this proves I do make mistakes. My mistake was thinking it would take longer than this for me to be proven right. more

Global Cooling Sets In; Al Gore Apologizes for Trying to Send Everyone Into A Tizzy Over Global Warming

February 26, 2008 Posted by Barry Arrington under Global Warming, Off Topic
16 Comments

 The second part of the headline is false.  The first part is true.  See the article in the Daily Tech here.  Excerpt:  All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously. Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the results… more

Marshall Institute critiques Climate Science

February 26, 2008 Posted by DLH under Global Warming, Off Topic
12 Comments

The George C. Marshal Institute‘s 3rd edition of Climate Issues and Questions is a refreshing effort to provide a dispassionate evaluation of 29 major questions regarding the science of “climate change”, and to separate those from political agendas. Their method and effort is well worth considering in light of the current debate over origins of… more

ID in my Daughter’s Science Class

February 25, 2008 Posted by dacook under Biology
6 Comments

I recently assisted my daughter with a most interesting project for her 8th grade science class. The assignment was to learn about a Biome, write a report on it, then design an animal to live in it. The students were to provide a description of the characteristics of their animal which suited it to life… more

Interview with Timothy Keller

February 25, 2008 Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design
30 Comments

 The Reason for God by Timothy Keller is No. 18 on the NYT bestsellers list.  Over at First Things Anthony Sacramone has a great interview with Keller that includes this on the evolution debate:  In The Reason for God, you make a very brief argument for the validity of evolution within a limited sphere. It… more

Today at The Design of Life blog

February 24, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under The Design of Life
13 Comments

Why do scientists sometimes ignore warnings that theories are wrong? Even great scientists can get it all wrong, and it is interesting to see how and when they do. more

Isn’t It Nice, When Things “Just Work”?

February 23, 2008 Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design
15 Comments

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“Another two-fingered salute to the opponents of evolution”

February 23, 2008 Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design
55 Comments

New Scientist February 16, 2008 Dan Jones Pg. 40-43 heavily edited. Full text here. “William Paley, who argued that the natural world is full of designed complexity which must have a creator, would have considered the bacterial flagellum an excellent example. The flagellum, with its intricate arrangement of interconnecting parts, looks no less designed than… more

“My Failed Simulation” taken literally at scienceblogs

February 23, 2008 Posted by Granville Sewell under Humor, Intelligent Design
59 Comments

When I first wrote “My Failed Simulation” (now on the discovery.org main page here and at Human Events) it really never even occurred to me that anyone would think I had actually tried such a simulation, or that I was claiming to have tried it. I thought it was pretty obvious that it was just… more

Finch and Knuther win 2006 Best Paper Award for “Socio-Chortelist Evolution of Humor: Emergent Jocularity from the Process of Natural Selection”

February 23, 2008 Posted by Galapagos Finch under Intelligent Design
3 Comments

Finch and Knuther each received an award check for $15,000 plus a gold plated medallion for their evolution of “a man walks into a bar” jokes. Read their paper at TheBRITES.org. more

Today at the Overwhelming Evidence blog

February 22, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
2 Comments

Just plain big? How do animals get that way? Why the exploding palm tree explodes – or why it doesn’t Frog from hell? Well, that’s how Nature News is telling it. Apollyon, check your e-mail. The frog is loose again. more

Intelligent Design: Did Biological Life Require It?

February 22, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
25 Comments

February 19, 2008 K.D. Kalinsky (Note from Denyse: An ID theorist asked me to publish this essay on detecting design in nature. It is exactly as the scientist gave it to me except that – I have linked the sections for easier Web handling – all the notes have been moved to the end. -… more

Why isn’t ALL life extinct?

February 22, 2008 Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design
60 Comments

In another thread talking about engineers’ perspectives on the machinery of life the topic of entropy came up. Engineers have to deal with entropy in all their designs and the very best efforts at dealing with it only serve to slow it down and never stop it. So one of my big questions isn’t why… more

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