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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Literary Darwinism: Crap? Lit crit chasing its collective tail?

July 30, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
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Well, if we go by Britt Peterson’s survey article, “Darwin to the Rescue”, in Chronicle Free, even its supporters don’t totally disagree, despite all the huffery: Gottschall points out that much of his writing has been published in scientific journals. He admits, however, that under the name of Literary Darwinism “there’s also a lot of… more

Bill Maher — Dawkins for the Unwashed Masses

July 30, 2008 Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Culture, Religion
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Check out his forthcoming documentary RELIGULOUS (click here for the trailer). more

“She’s Got No Brain” by Jim Rogers

July 30, 2008 Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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To listen to this song in mp3, click here. SHE’S GOT NO BRAIN By Jim Rogers Little machines that go Integrated just so Blueprint incognito What makes it grow Put together so fine Personalities shine Words of poetry rhyme How can you know What a wonder it is It’s a silly thing to think we’re… more

Did the eyespots of butterflies and moths evolve to deter predators?

July 29, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
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For two hundred years, scientists have believed that the eyespots of butterflies and moths evolved to look like large eyes in order to frighten off predators. A bird might think that the bright eyespots are the eyes of a concealed cat, for example. It sounds logical, but there is a hidden assumption: We are assuming… more

A Simple Gene Origination Calculation

July 27, 2008 Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design
218 Comments

In this month’s Nature Genetics, there is an article by Zhou, et. al., dealing with the generation of new genes in Drosophila melanogaster—the fruit fly. While only having access to the abstract, I nonetheless was struck by one of their findings: the rate of new functional gene generation. As finding number 6 in the abstract,… more

Loennig and Becker on the origin of carnivorous plants

July 27, 2008 Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design
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Although I have posted on this article before, I don’t think Wolf-Ekkehard Loennig and Heinz-Albert Becker’s Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences article on carnivorous plants has received the attention it merits. The section on the origin of carnivorous plants (pp 5-6) discusses not only the spectacular examples of irreducible complexity that can be seen in… more

Yes, it’s true! The ID Taliban brought about Baylor Prez Lilley’s downfall …

July 27, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
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Apparently, some fans of the ruins of neo-Darwinism think that President John Lilley’s departure from Baylor relates to intelligent design. So Rack Jite: Though matters of tenure and logo design (believe it or not) are reported as the reasons, it was about no such thing. Rather it is the revenge of Baptist fundamentalists over encroaching… more

ID award recipient not named for own protection …

July 25, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
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I notice that at Overwhelming Evidence, Sam Chen announces that a student sympathetic to intelligent design has received the Cassey Luskin Graduate Award, but The recipient of the 2008 Casey Luskin Graduate Award will remain anonymous for the protection of the recipient…. It’s interesting to reflect on that in view of the many legacy media… more

Baylor President Lilley Fired

July 24, 2008 Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design
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This just in from Christianity Today. Lilley, you will recall, expelled Robert Marks’s Evolutionary Informatics Lab from Baylor (for that story, go here). July 24, 2008 9:57AM President of Baylor University Fired John Lilley had angered alumni, faculty, and others with tenure decisions. Ted Olsen Baylor University’s board of regents has fired president John Lilley,… more

Darwinism: Imagining the unimaginable, and cutting through the terminology fog

July 24, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
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First, imagining the unimaginable American-born Warwick U sociologist Steve Fuller writes to share the news that his book was Book of the Week in Times Higher, where Keith Ward tries to give a reasonable though plodding account of what he is writing about: … , Fuller argues that there is no reason to call ID… more

Introduction: A journalist tries to understand a jealous god – materialist science

July 24, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Culture
3 Comments

After reading American journalist Pam Winnick’s A Jealous God (Nelson, 2005), I informed her that I wish I had written it. Winnick and I both started writing a book on the intelligent design controversy at about the same time. My By Design or by Chance? is a closeup look; Winnick used the ID controversy as… more

Monotropa uniflora

July 22, 2008 Posted by Dave S. under Off Topic, Science
13 Comments

This is off topic. Specifically botany and mycology. I thought some readers might find it of interest. I’m vacationing for the summer up north, it’s been wet and warm, perfect for mushrooms so this morning my daughter and I went walking through some woods and fields looking for mushrooms. I really wanted to get a… more

PZ Myers and Abbie Smith – An Hour of No Cursing!

July 21, 2008 Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design
24 Comments

PZ Myers and Abbie Smith have an hour-long video conference here. A few surprising things, not the least of which is neither of them thought to bolster their points with the cussing that characterizes their blogs. Anyhow, the first 15 minutes they talk about epigenetics, the Altenberg 16 conference, Susan Mazur, and try to downplay… more

No Smoking Hot Spot

July 21, 2008 Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic
1 Comment

I’ve been saying for a long time that the computer climate model predictions don’t match up to actual observations. The global warming hysterics have been in denial trying to find faults with the observations instead of admitting the plain truth that the models are flawed. Here’s an article by an Australian climate researcher that tells… more

Michael Shermer Misrepresents Intelligent Design in Canadian Newspaper

July 20, 2008 Posted by Thomas Cudworth under Intelligent Design
10 Comments

In the July 9 edition of The Ottawa Citizen, Michael Shermer published an attack on aspects of Intelligent Design. The article, with comments from readers, can be found at: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/views/story.html?id=711a0b47-29d5-426d-a273-a270817b000e&p=1 Shermer’s attack was brought on by a comment of Rabbi Reuven Bulka, published in the Citizen on July 7. Bulka had written: “By the way,… more

Evolution Disclaimer

July 20, 2008 Posted by William Dembski under Evolution
6 Comments

Here’s the closing disclaimer on a GodTube video about evolution (hat tip to bornagain77): more

Faith and Reason in the OOL Context

July 20, 2008 Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design
72 Comments

Paul Giem’s comment to my Faith and Reason post below is so good, I thought it deserved its own post. Read on to see how Paul demonstrates decisively that in the origin of life context (OOL) the materialists’ faith commitment is the sort of blind-leap-in-the-dark-in-the-teeth-of-the-evidence stretch of which they delight in accusing theists of making. more

Olivia Judson: “Let’s not call what we’re doing ‘Darwinism’.”

July 19, 2008 Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution
11 Comments

Olivia Judson is on a mission to control the damage to Darwin’s hemorrhaging theory. Her latest at the NYTimes is to suggest that we stop using the term “Darwinism” because the field of evolutionary biology is so much richer than what Darwin gave us. Others have tried that strategy with equal laughable disingenuity (e.g., Paul… more

I am a machine. No, I am a tree. Here’s the problem with analogy …

July 19, 2008 Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design
18 Comments

A friend writes to say that nonsensical materialism is now being marketed to engineers, via IEEE, the largest professional engineering society in the world, with over 365 000 members. This article, “I, Rodney Brooks, am a robot”, appeared in the IEEE Spectrum which is the magazine that goes to all members: I am a machine.… more

PeerGate review scandal at American Physical Society

July 19, 2008 Posted by DLH under Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Legal, Science
23 Comments

The American Physical Society alleged that Lord Monckton‘s paper Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered was not peer reviewed when Monckton in fact thoroughly revised his paper in response to APS peer review. Monckton immediately demanded retraction, accountability and an apology. The Editor of the American Physical Society‘s Forum on Physics and Society launched a debate on global… more

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