Monthly Archives: July 2009
SHOULD BE OFF TOPIC
| July 31, 2009 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
UD bloggers tend not to automatically follow the experts or the party line. Check out this MSNBC debate between two US Congressmen on whether Global Warming was caused by CO2. When the “denier” started to look as if he was winning on the science, the debate moderator inferred he was a creationist and anti-science. He then forced both men to profess their… more
Darwinism and popular culture: A columnist reminds me of its easy, empty phrases
| July 31, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
In “A God who bleeds” (July 31, 2009), Jonah Goldberg notes, Oprah promised Obama would help us “evolve to a higher plane.” Deepak Chopra said Obama’s presidency represented “a quantum leap in American consciousness.” Last month, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas proclaimed that Obama stood “above the country, above — above the world, he’s sort of… more
Karen Armstrong’s Case for G_d
| July 30, 2009 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion |
I have just posted my review of Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God on my university website. Although the book does not spend many pages on ID in name, she clearly objects to the broadly natural theological mentality that provides support for ID. Hers is a very consistently anti-rationalist case for religion. I’m sure there… more
Common ancestry: More on the infant grasping reflex
| July 30, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
A while back, I wrote to a correspondent about the infant grasping reflex. He had written to say that some Darwinist somewhere was fronting the ability of human infants to hang on a couple of minutes as evidence of common descent with chimpanzees, and wondered how I could possibly deal with this evidence. (Well, I… more
Bait And Switch (Intuition, Part Deux)
| July 29, 2009 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Once upon a time people thought that the sun revolved around the earth because this was intuitive. They were wrong. Once upon a time people thought that the moon revolved around the earth because it was intuitive. They were right. Therefore, intuition can’t be trusted. Good enough. Evidence eventually confirmed the truth in both cases.… more
The Principle of “Methodological Counterintuitiveness”
| July 29, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution, Global Warming, Intelligent Design |
I recently posted on op-ed in which I described that the concern in the 1970s was not global warming but global cooling (go here). Critics of that piece are now claiming that I’m misrepresenting the fabulous 70s and that “science” back then was not in fact claiming that the earth was cooling. I recall seeing… more
Satirizing Scientism
| July 28, 2009 | Posted by Gage under Evolution, Intelligent Design |
I wanted to highlight a friend’s blog dedicated to “Mocking Scientism, Evolutionism, & the Arrogance of the Academy. Warning of the Dangers of Technological “Enhancement” of Human Beings. Exploring the Logic of Intelligent Design.” It covers a nice variety of topics from a new perspective. more
Steve Meyer on COAST TO COAST tonight
| July 28, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
DNA & Intelligent Design Date: 07-28-09 Host: George Noory Guest: Stephen Meyer Stephen C. Meyer will discuss recent discoveries in cell biology which support intelligent design and reveal that digital computers and living cells are operating on the same principles. SOURCE: www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2009/07/28 more
Uncommon Descent: Contest Question 7: “Foul anonymous Darwinist blogger exposed. Why so foul?” Winner announced
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Uncommon Descent: Contest Question 7: “Foul anonymous Darwinist blogger exposed. Why so foul?” featured the opposite outcome from Contest Question 6. Only one person entered Question 6 (winner announced here), possibly because most of us are sick of hearing the term “crisis” used to mean any situation (in this case, genomics) that someone finds upsetting.… more
H. L. Mencken on the “urge to save humanity”
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Global Warming, Science |
H. L. Mencken once remarked that “the urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.” I made much the same point in a recent op-ed about our new science czar John Holdren (go here). I first became aware of the quote from a July 24th article in INVESTOR’S… more
Are Evolutionists Delusional (or just in denial)?
| July 27, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
My friend Paul Nelson has the patience of Job. He writes that evolutionists, such as PZ Myers and Jerry Coyne, “need to think about [their theological arguments] more deeply.” In one moment evolutionists make religious arguments and in the next they claim their theory is “just science.” Their religious arguments, they explain, really aren’t religious… more
Jerry, PZ, Ron, faitheism, Templeton, Bloggingheads, and all that — some follow-up comments
| July 26, 2009 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
PZ Myers and Jerry Coyne both commented on the Numbers-Nelson Bloggingheads exchange. Some comments on their comments: more
The Foresighted Paradigm Shift
| July 26, 2009 | Posted by Patrick under Biology, Evolution, Genomics, Intelligent Design |
I’ve heard geneticists say we’re in the middle of a paradigm shift, and that no one really understands what’s going on. I even read an article the other day showing how at least one creature DELETES portions of its own DNA during certain stages of development. Basically, the long-held ideas from even a couple years… more
‘That Wild-Haired Man And That Dapper Fellow’- Homing In On The Secret Of Life
| July 26, 2009 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
Synopsis Of The Third Chapter Of  Signature In The Cell by Stephen Meyer ISBN: 9780061894206; ISBN10: 0061894206; Imprint: HarperOne  “Watson, with his wild hair and perfect willingness to throw off work for a Hedy Lamarr film, and Crick, a dapper and no longer especially young fellow who couldn’t seem to close the deal on his dissertation“(p.59). … more
The Evolutionist is “Shocked, Shocked to Find Religion in Here”
| July 26, 2009 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Religious doctrinaire PZ Myers now incredibly claims there is no religion in evolution. After seeing Paul Nelson and Ronald Numbers discuss the issue, Myers reveals he is deeply in denial. Continue reading here. more
An Hour Sir, Please?
| July 25, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Darwinism, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science |
Marvin Olasky, in an article at Townhall.com, makes a simple request: that Dr. Francis Collins, former leader of the Human Genome Project and President Obama’s recent nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health, come to King’s College in the Empire State Building and spend an hour discussing Darwinism and ID with Dr. Stephen Meyer… more
Academics as conformists?: No, they just want to be non-conformists, like everybody else
| July 25, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
Or so Nicholas Wade tells us is the view of Thomas Bouchard, the Minnesota psychologist who studied twins raised apart (“Researcher Condemns Conformity Among His Peers,” New York Times, July 25, 2009). Now retiring, in an interview with Constance Holden, Bouchard assails his colleagues (paywall). Wade writes, Journalists, of course, are conformists too. So are… more
Ron Numbers & Paul Nelson Bloggingheads
| July 25, 2009 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Go here. Ron goes after Coyne and Dawkins for promoting atheism; I talk about living in a trailer park (so to speak). Watch the whole thing while you clean up your office — that’s how I watch Bloggingheads on Saturday morning, when John Horgan and George Johnson usually hold court — and post a comment… more
Professor Pinker engages in wishful thinking – dissent is significant among chemists and chemical engineers
| July 24, 2009 | Posted by Gage under Chemistry, Intelligent Design |
As recently noted on this site, in his letter to the Boston Globe, Harvard University psychology Professor Steven Pinker began SHAME ON you for publishing two creationist op-eds in two years from the Discovery Institute, a well-funded propaganda factory that aims to sow confusion about evolution. Virtually no scientist takes “intelligent design’’ seriously, and in… more
Does God evolve now ?
| July 24, 2009 | Posted by Steno under Intelligent Design |
Andrew Halloway has reviewed ‘The Evolution of God’ by Robert Wright, published over at Science and Values blog. Science and Values – So even God evolves now ? more