Monthly Archives: June 2008
ID-Compatible Predictions: Foresighted Mechanisms Identified?
| June 20, 2008 | Posted by Patrick under Biology, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design |
Core ID and ID-compatible hypotheses have various predictions. For example, there’s the confirmed predictions related to junk DNA and genetic nature of the platypus, the predictions about designer drugs, long-term preservation mechanisms for conserving information that is not currently implemented, and retroviruses being capable of being used to implement designed changes. At this time the… more
The Patristic Understanding of Creation — now available!
| June 20, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
An anthology that I started ten years ago is, with the help of two good friends and colleagues, finally out. It is titled The Patristic Understanding of Creation: An Anthology of Writings from the Church Fathers on Creation and Design and can be ordered here. For the table of contents, go here. This is the… more
English Crop Circle’s Mysterious Pattern Solved
| June 19, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Unraveling these crop circles constitutes a design inference that doesn’t just tell us that something was designed but also tells us something about the knowledge of the designer: SOURCE: go here. more
“Saving Darwin” — What’s the point?
| June 19, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Expelled, Intelligent Design |
I’ve known Karl Giberson over a decade. In the early days, he was a respectful critic of ID. That now seems to have changed with the publication of his most recent book, Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (go here for the Amazon listing). The subtitle is curious. Ordinarily one… more
Evolution now more firmly established than gravity
| June 19, 2008 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection, which was already as well established as the theory of gravity, has taken a big leap forward. According to the New Scientist (see Dave Scot’s post earlier today), E.Coli bacteria have evolved the ability to digest citrate, after only 44,000 generations. “It’s the first time evolution has been… more
Theistic Evolution – A Pact with the Devil?
| June 19, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Since I don’t believe in angels, devils, and things of that nature understand that the devil in the title is a metaphor for positive atheists. I wanted to point out that as soon as the atheists have vanquished the more blatant god bothering creationists from post-modern western civilization they’re going to go after the so-called… more
New Scientist: “the first time evolution has been caught in the act”
| June 19, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
In New Scientist we find the following article: Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers’ eyes. It’s the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. This is in reference to the E.… more
Teaching the Non-Controversy — An Immodest Proposal
| June 18, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
There’s an interesting story in today’s Washington Times (go here) on Louisiana’s new science policy (shortly to be signed into law by Governor Jindal) advocating that both strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory be taught in the public school science curriculum. The other side (ACLU, NCSE, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, etc.)… more
Theistic Darwinists blitzkrieg the ID movement
| June 18, 2008 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
In the month of June we have: Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution (Hardcover) by Karl Giberson, released June 10, 2008. Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul (Hardcover) by Ken Miller, released June 12, 2008. Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion… more
Darwinist Behavior in a Nutshell
| June 18, 2008 | Posted by Patrick under Humor |
I watched Miller on the Colbert Report last night. Then I saw this comic. Interesting parallels… more
Michael Ruse on Ken Miller’s New Book (Or, Truth and Beauty Versus Lies and Ugliness)
| June 17, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Michael Ruse writes: “Ken Miller’s new book, Only a Theory, Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul, is everything we have come to expect from him — informed, witty, and above all deeply serious about matters of concern to us all. He takes so-called intelligent design theory apart, piece by piece, showing it for the… more
Fine-tuning a materialist society – Introducing the “pre-crime”!
| June 17, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
I am currently transcribing Canadian civil rights lawyer and journalist Ezra Levant‘s talk at a lunch at the Canadian Bar Association offices. In Canada’s increasingly illiberal regime, Levant has been charged with “hate crime” for publishing the Danish “Mohammed” cartoons. Among the innovations he addresses is “pre-crime” – first introduced in Tom Cruise’s Minority Report, and… more
TheoEvo vs. ID — Hey, who started this anyway?
| June 17, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Ken Miller compares ID proponents to “welfare queens” (go here) and Karl Giberson denounces ID proponents for “smearing” theistic evolutionists, citing this blog (go here). Besides displaying desperation, these people have no evident sense of irony. Miller has for years been dipping his hand into the public till, which continues to underwrite sales of his… more
Mike Behe talks about Kenneth Miller’s book
| June 17, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
From Mike Behe’s Amazon blog an article on Kenneth Miller’s book Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul Once More With Feeling 11:11 AM PDT, June 16, 2008 Dear Readers, Kenneth R. Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University, has written a new book Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle… more
How our Marxist faculties got that way
| June 17, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Culture, Education |
How our Marxist faculties got that way By Edward Bernard Glick June 17, 2008 American Thinker Edward Bernard Glick is a professor emeritus of political science at Temple University and the author of “Soldiers, Scholars, and Society: The Social Impact of the American Military.” It’s August 1968. Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators have just wrecked the Democratic… more
Kenneth Miller on The Colbert Report
| June 17, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Attention Darwinpickets! Advance screening of Ben Stein’s controversial Expelled film at the Varsity theatre in Toronto
| June 15, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Expelled |
I have been invited to an advance screening of Expelled in Canada (the widely denounced #5 political documentary about the attempts to silence the intelligent design guys) on Thursday, June 26, at 7:00pm at The Varsity Theatre – 55 Bloor St. West in Toronto. The film opens the following Friday June 27 (or Saturday June… more
ID And The Arts: Van Cliburn, 50 Years Later
| June 14, 2008 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
I remember my two meetings with Van Cliburn with great fondness. He was, and still is, an extraordinary musical and pianistic talent who, at the tender age of 23 in 1958, warmed the Cold War. Most of you probably don’t remember this. Visit the following links for a little history: here, here, and here. As… more
Louisiana disparages Darwin
| June 14, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
Darwin Defeated in the Bayou: Louisiana Encourages ‘Critical Thinking’ Richard Monastersky | Chronicle of Higher Education | June 12, 2008 The title of this article is self-explanatory (teaching Darwin critically seems now to be becoming the big thing at the state level). Here are some of the reactions: “It’s Louisiana. If they can abuse it,… more
Another pro-ID movie opens on 2,986 theater screens
| June 14, 2008 | Posted by scordova under Culture |
According to this reviewer: “The Happening” is the biggest ID movie of the year: M. Night Shyamalan’s critically-panned flick The Happening is Hollywood’s first blockbuster to promote the anti-evolutionary theory of intelligent design. Maybe you thought Ben Stein’s ill-fated documentary Expelled was the only movie to argue in favor of the neo-Christian idea that an… more