Monthly Archives: February 2009
Oopsie daisy… NSIDC misplaces 500,000 sq. kilometers of arctic ice
| February 21, 2009 | Posted by Dave S. under Eyes Rolling, Global Warming, Off Topic |
The National Snow and Ice Data Center had to pull down its January and February arctic ice extent data because a deteriorating sensor on a satellite was slowly changing ice to water. By mid-February when someone noticed the readings were off by a half-million square kilometers. That’s a lot of ice when you consider that… more
Did You Know?
| February 21, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Culture, Evolution, Media, Science |
embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Welcome to the age of information. more
Don’t Give Up The Faith!
| February 20, 2009 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Given enough time, inanimate matter — through the laws of chemistry and physics, and with enough random trials, filtered by natural selection which throws out stuff that doesn’t work — will self-organize into highly sophisticated information-processing machinery that produces the human mind. How could this ultimate truth not be obvious, except to those who have… more
Is this Darwin’s legacy?
| February 20, 2009 | Posted by Steno under Intelligent Design |
A cartoon in an American paper, the New York Post, has brought fresh attention to the race problems in some sections of society. The cartoon shows a chimpanzee shot dead by police with a caption apparently referring to the new American President Obama – (edit: although later denied that Obama was the target). Note from… more
Putting Intelligent Design to Work
| February 20, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
This is a good example of how to use ID and abandon “unintelligent” evolution. Read article here (in PDF) more
Nazca lines in Peru (circa 200 BC)
| February 20, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Intelligent Design |
Given enough time… more
Complex Specified Information? You be the judge…
| February 20, 2009 | Posted by Dave S. under Intelligent Design |
This Google Ocean image is 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands. It is over 15,000 feet deep and the feature of interest is about 90 miles on a side or 8000 square miles. In another thread ID critics complain there is no rigorous definition or mathematical formula by which… more
Don’t use the D word. It’s being eliminated.
| February 19, 2009 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Or course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime… more
The Gradualist’s Demise
| February 18, 2009 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
The Cambrian Explosion, what a commotion, for long-established theories on how things should occur. Sudden emergence, animal insurgence, novel parts and body plans, no ancestry we’re sure. Five fifty million years ago, a faunal troupe did truly show, what all the fossil experts know, “Biology’s Big Bang”. No intermediates came before, a true explosion to… more
Eugene Koonin steps out on Darwin Day: LUCAS, not LUCA
| February 18, 2009 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Eugene V. Koonin, “Darwinian evolution in the light of genomics,” Nucleic Acids Research 2009, 1-24. The overall pattern of life’s history, he argues, may be a Forest, not a single Tree of Life [TOL]: Evolutionary genomics effectively demolished the straightforward concept of the TOL by revealing the dynamic, reticulated character of evolution where HGT, genome… more
Message Theory – A testable ID alternative to Darwinism – Part 1
| February 16, 2009 | Posted by Walter ReMine under Culture, Education, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, The Design of Life |
Message Theory is a testable scientific explanation of life’s major patterns. more
United Church of Canada celebrates Darwin – en route to oblivion
| February 16, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
In the most recent edition of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association’s ScienceLink (Vol 28, No. 4, 2008), there is an interesting piece by Graeme Stemp-Morlock on the decision by the United Church Observer , the leading United Church-related magazine, to co-sponsor the Royal Ontario Museum’s “Evolution Revolution” exhibit ($15,000 cash and $35,000 advertising): If a… more
Darwin’s “Sacred” Cause: How Opposing Slavery Could Still Enslave
| February 16, 2009 | Posted by Flannery under Intelligent Design |
Those who follow the Darwin industry are very familiar with Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond and James Moore. In that biography they were one of the few biographers to highlight young Charles’ Edinburgh years (October 1825 to April 1827) and show the powerful influences that experience had on the teenager.… more
Darwin reader: Darwin’s racism
| February 14, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
In the face of systematic attempts to efface from public view, Darwin’s racism, a friend writes to offer quotes from Darwin’s Descent of Man: Savages are intermediate states between people and apes: “It has been asserted that the ear of man alone possesses a lobule; but ‘a rudiment of it is found in the gorilla’… more
Book on Alfred Russel Wallace now available!
| February 14, 2009 | Posted by Flannery under Biography, Intelligent Design |
Published by  Erasmus Press, Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwinism is now available purchase book.    In this book I provide a context and perspective with which to analyze the intellectual legacy of famed 19th-century naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace. In it two principle themes are argued: 1) Darwin’s theory of… more
Darwinism and popular culture: Seattle DOESN’T love Lucy? Oh, … how could they not?
| February 13, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Whodathunkit?? The Lucy (yer granny was an ape!!) exhibition is not a big draw, even in Seattle. A friend writes: “I actually went to see Lucy yesterday and it was very revealing. Not only was I underwhelmed with the incompleteness of Lucy’s skeleton, but I was struck with the admissions from the video playing with… more
Competition pressures hit Evolutionary Biology
| February 13, 2009 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
In an ironic twist, professors arguing that nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of natural selection, are experiencing a different type of selection pressure themselves. How important is evolutionary biology really? From NATURE The Year of Darwin has got off to a bad start. In the Netherlands a national reorganization of university… more
Neuroscience: “Social neuroscience” is down for the count
| February 12, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
This just in from the British Psychological Society Research Digest Blog: The brain imaging community is about to experience another shockwave, just days after the online leak of a paper that challenged many of the brain-behaviour correlations reported in respected social neuroscience journals. Social neuroscience (which I take to be a classic example of false… more
Frustrating “Evolution” Polls
| February 12, 2009 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
The article, Darwin’s Birthday Poll: Fewer Than 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution, just up at foxnews.com, references this Gallup poll, in which this question is asked, “Do you, personally, believe in the theory of evolution, do you not believe in evolution, or don’t you have an opinion either way?” Why don’t they ever ask… more
Forget About Survival of the Fittest
| February 11, 2009 | Posted by DonaldM under Intelligent Design |
In todays Wall Street Journal OpionJournal online appears this editorial by NYU’s Gary Marcus. Marcus is a professor of evolutionary psychology. In this editorial, he wants to make the case that evolution settles for what works, not necessarily for what is ideal or best. He then wants to apply this to understanding human behavior, especially… more