Monthly Archives: July 2008
Antony Flew reviews — and rips — Dawkins’ THE GOD DELUSION
| July 19, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Religion, Science |
Antony Flew, formerly the most prominent atheist in the English speaking world, goes after Dawkins, his successor as head atheist: The God Delusion by the atheist writer Richard Dawkins, is remarkable in the first place for having achieved some sort of record by selling over a million copies. But what is much more remarkable than… more
EXPELLED DVD — to be released October 21st
| July 19, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Amazon.com is selling it for the pre-order price of $18.90. more
So much for the “scientific consensus” regarding man-made global warming
| July 18, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Global Warming, Science |
As I recall, there’s another consensus in science…something in biology about how we got here… Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate Michael Asher (Blog) – July 16, 2008 9:35 PM The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that… more
How to Be an Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist — Or Not
| July 17, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Coming this October… Book description (pre-order for $9.60 at Amazon): “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin,” writes Richard Dawkins, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” This little book shows that atheism must seek intellectual fulfillment elsewhere by decisively demonstrating the need for intelligence in explaining life’s origin. This… more
Yoko Ono Lawsuit Expelled!
| July 17, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Constitution, Darwinism, Expelled |
There may yet be hope for the First Amendment and common sense copyright. ———————- Yoko Ono Lawsuit Expelled!: Judge Rules in Favor of Expelled Producers; Film To Be Re-Released In Theaters This Summer (PRWEB) July 17, 2008 — The producers of the controversial film, Expelled, are celebrating their first legal victory in the lawsuit brought… more
Is there a “religious” impulse?
| July 16, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design, Religion |
To look at this account of the religious fervour surrounding Barack Obama by Michael Medved, one would think so. Consider Author Garen Thomas makes similar observations in “Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama”, a newly published book for children. “There has emerged a new leader who seems to be granting Americans a renewed… more
Science journalist trashing the Darwin industry? … I have a twin somewhere?
| July 15, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Is Susan Mazur writing a book that exposes the Darwin industry instead of protecting it? Her e-book title is “Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry” Sunday, 6 July 2008, 12:32 pm | Article: Suzan Mazur —– < oreword Introduction Chronology Evolution Tribes 1 The Altenberg 16 2 Altenberg! The Woodstock of Evolution? 3… more
Is ID getting anywhere? Three thoughts, and a suggestion, and other news
| July 14, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
I’ve been covering the ID controversy for about seven years now, as one of only a handful of journalists to make a specialty of it. Along the way, I have encountered several j’s who were scared off by threats of career ruin. I thought that too bad. If your stories are consistently about stuff that’s… more
Roy Spencer on Intelligent Design
| July 14, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Roy Spencer is a global warming skeptic and the author of the hypothesis that the water cycle acts as the earth’s thermostat. In a previous article I attributed that hypothesis to “the father of climatology” and that was incorrect. The father of climatology is Reid Bryson. He is a global warming skeptic though. Roy Spencer… more
Faith and Reason
| July 13, 2008 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
The comment threads to several recent posts have contained spirited discussions of faith, reason and the relationship between the two. This issue comes up quite often on this blog, so I decided it was time to devote a post to it. Many of the comments assume a dichotomy, namely that materialists operate solely within the… more
Off Topic: “Faith & Healing: Where’s the Evidence?”
| July 12, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Off Topic |
Here’s something I wrote for the Baptist Press about faith healer Todd Bentley. Unlike Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, James Randi, and the skeptical community in general, I don’t throw out all miraculous healings. Indeed, I think they are far more prevalent than we ordinarily imagine. At the same time, we need to guard against wishful… more
What do Design Detection and Nazis Have in Common?
| July 12, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
Perhaps someone can explain to me what the science of design detection has to do with Nazis, the Holocaust, or Hitler. I sure can’t think of anything. Help me out here. It’s things like this that undermine ruin the effort to get ID accepted as good science. It gives our critics the ammunition they need… more
Should the Expelled movie have addressed the Holocaust?
| July 11, 2008 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Many of us have heard a wearisome amount of commentary about whether the Expelled film should have – or should not have – dwelt on the Darwin-driven Nazi extermination of “inferior” peoples. Scholar Richard Weikart, who knows more than anyone alive about the Nazis and Darwin, writes to say, The point about showing the social… more
ConversantLife.com videos for UNDERSTANDING ID
| July 11, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
ConversantLife.com is doing a lot of the web marketing of my new book with Sean McDowell (UNDERSTANDING INTELLIGENT DESIGN). Here are some videos they did of Sean and me during a recent bookseller’s convention: www.conversantlife.com/id (scroll down) www.youtube.com/user/conversantlifestyle (scroll down) more
The Earth’s Thermostat
| July 11, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Global Warming, Off Topic |
I wrote a longish reply to someone on an obscure forum about global warming and thought as long as I put the work into it I should reproduce it to a wider audience so here it is: You didn’t figure out the shoe size/salary correlation. It’s a classic example in why correlation doesn’t equal causation.… more
Who Removed Pharyngula Links from morris.umn.edu?
| July 11, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
In the lastest escapades of Paul “Frackin’ Cracker” Myers I found that all links to Pharyngula, where Myers recently promised to film and blog himself desecrating the Catholic Eucharist, have been hastily removed from the University of Minnesota (Morris) website. Thanks to Google Cache and also The Wayback Machine we can see that these links… more
If you liked the XVIVO cellular animation…
| July 11, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design, Molecular Animations |
…then check out this: www.hybridmedicalanimation.com/demoReel.html more
Paul Zachary Myers: Evolutionist and Now Imminent Desecrator
| July 10, 2008 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
This just posted on the Catholic League’s website: MINNESOTA PROF PLEDGES TO DESECRATE EUCHARIST July 10, 2008 Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota Morris, has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist. He is responding to what happened recently at the University of Central Florida when a student walked out of Mass with… more
Design for Photosynthetic Hydrogen
| July 10, 2008 | Posted by DLH under Biology, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity |
Lubitz, Reijerse & Messinger have published a fascinating review into the intricacies of photosystem II and hydrogenases that produce hydrogen – Note the marvels within Darwn’s blob of “protoplasm”. It is most interesting that Lubitz et al. address the design principles that we can learn from “nature” and apply to creating synthetic photochemical biosynthetic water… more
Louisiana – what’s the big deal?
| July 10, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
So Louisiana has a new law allowing science teachers to teach the weaknesses of time & chance evolutionary theory. What’s the big deal? Evolution by time and chance is as well tested as gravity for Pete’s sake. How long does take to convince a kid that when he throws a baseball into the air gravity… more