Monthly Archives: March 2009
Phineas Gage: Evolution of a lecture room psychopath
| March 25, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
I was at dinner the other week with a voluble atheist religion professor who, in defense of a materialist view of the human mind, raised the subject of Phineas Gage (1823-1860). Ah yes, the man whose personality changed completely after a horrific accident, a staple of Introductory Psychology. Anyone who has taken Psychology 101 or… more
Message Theory – A Testable ID Alternative to Darwinism – Part 2
| March 25, 2009 | Posted by Walter ReMine under Creationism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science |
Message Theory is testable and comprehensive more
Metaphors, Design Recognition, and the Design Matrix
| March 23, 2009 | Posted by scordova under Intelligent Design |
Here are excerpts from The Design Matrix by Mike Gene: Metaphors such as “fear”, “cost”, “abhor” and “angry”, commonly share the projection of consciousness onto the world. Metaphors such as these represent the human tendency to view the world through anthropomorphic glasses. However, the metaphors employed by molecular biologists are not of this type. ….… more
Intelligent Design and GM Crops
| March 22, 2009 | Posted by Steno under Intelligent Design |
I posted this news item about GM crops on the Science and Values blog and would be interested in starting a discussion about how intelligent design proponents view genetically modified crops. If design in nature is ‘optimal’ then can that be improved through human intervention? What does ID predict, perhaps that GM crops will always… more
Oh No, Ono files: Expelled is #8 in documentaries
| March 21, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Here’s a useful link to the response to efforts to pretend that scientists whose research convinces them that the universe shows evidence of design do not face persecution. (I’ve covered the persecution for years. To say it is not happening is, to me, like saying 9-11 didn’t happen. It is always possible for an ideologue… more
Origin of life: Researchers claim life could have existed 4.4 billion years ago, before Earth cooled.
| March 20, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
So why are these University of Colorado at Boulder people – and New Scientist – determined to prove that God must have created life? Look, I don’t care, but consider this: Just when claims for Akilia, as evidence of life at 3.82 billion years ago have not held up, some researchers are even more ambitious… more
Multiverse: Comic vid mocks the paradox
| March 20, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
If you have decided that a multiverse makes more sense than a designed universe, chances are, you will rethink after you see this: “Time Travelling the Universe,” produced by Rob Bryanton of What You Ought to Know. See also: more
“The Pontifical Academy of Evolutionists”
| March 20, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Creationism, Evolution, Religion, Science |
Here’s a quote from THE CHRISTIAN ORDER going back more than a decade: The Pontifical Academy of Evolutionists Despite being widely accepted even at the highest level in the Church, there has never been any authoritative teaching approving of evolution. Hence the reaction of the worldwide media to the Pope’s message to the Pontifical Academy… more
Dinosaur attack in Canada!!: No, not science fiction, honest!
| March 19, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism |
They are U of T science students Adam Tempiy, 23, and Yves, uh, Smith, 24.
Hmmmm. Adam and Yves, eh? What a revelation.
You aren’t Young Liberals by any chance?
“No, no,” says Adam. “We just feel a creationist shouldn’t be science minister.
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Anthony Sacramone callin’ ‘em like he sees ‘em
| March 19, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
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We Have No Excuse- A Scientific Case for Relating Life to Mind
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
Darwinists, please stop helping the chimp crazies
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
You and I are descended from the same common ancestor as many serial killers, which should warn us that common descent is obviously a poor predictor of psychology and behaviour.
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Design and engineering of an O2 transport protein
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
Here is another way to use ID: Nature 458, 305-309 (19 March 2009) Ronald L. Koder1,2,3, J. L. Ross Anderson1,2, Lee A. Solomon1, Konda S. Reddy1, Christopher C. Moser1 & P. Leslie Dutton1 The principles of natural protein engineering are obscured by overlapping functions and complexity accumulated through natural selection and evolution. Completely artificial proteins… more
Academic freedom for creation explanation
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by DLH under Constitution, Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Expelled, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life |
Reuben Kendall, freshman at UT-Martin, has written a thoughtful view point regarding Evolution vs Intelligent Design. He raises important points on metaphysical presumptions vs data. He raises the question of Academic Freedom which incorporates the foundational unalienable freedoms of speech and religion. May I encourage readers to write editorials and viewpoints raising such issues and… more
My post at MercatorNet: Wild animals are not people
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Looking at the story from a traditional Christian perspective, I would pass on the question of whether Herold is a horrible person. I agree that Travis is not a horrible chimp. The very idea is an irrelevance; he is a chimp, period, and therefore not responsible for his actions. more
Intelligent design vs. Darwinism: Junk DNA as the genes’ antique shop?
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
So swearing allegiance to Darwin, vs. design, wasted a lot of time. more
A Search Algorithm, And A Prize
| March 18, 2009 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
There has been some discussion at UD about computational search algorithms, which is one of my specialties. Just for fun, I’ve included some C source code here (as a .txt file), which is part of a research project. I’ll send a free set of my classical piano albums to the first person who runs the… more
Coffee!! Neuroscience: Your local marketing research pest is getting into the action …
| March 17, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Eyes Rolling |
Market research is tolerable if we understand that it is part of a sales strategy (those people gotta make a living). But pretending it is some kind of science is a fringe too far, I am afraid.
I believe that neuroscience should stay anchored closely to medicine. more
Does “A Well-Lived Life” Have Meaning?
| March 16, 2009 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
Charles Murray recently recounted an experience in Europe: Last April I had occasion to speak in Zurich, where I made some of these same points. After the speech, a few of the twenty-something members of the audience approached and said plainly that the phrase “a life well-lived” did not have meaning for them. They… more
New Scientist pulls post for legal reasons?
| March 16, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
It was just one of their usual screeds attacking intelligent design sympathizers, non-materialists, and anyone who doubts, generally. Apparently, someone complained, but – although the post mentions me, – I wasn’t the one. Go here for more. more