Monthly Archives: October 2009
The Legacy of Darwin and Intelligent Design
| October 31, 2009 | Posted by Groothuis under Intelligent Design |
I attended and participated in this conference in Castle Rock, CO, last night and today. It was superb–a world-class conference in every way, and most gratifying. Steve Meyer present the essence of his information argument the first night, covering a huge range of material in an approachable, but challenging way. He thus outlined the major… more
‘Insulae de los Galopegos’: The Crucible Of Skepticism
| October 31, 2009 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
 1997 will forever remain in my memory as the year that I had the opportunity to fly out to Galapagos and see the fauna of these magnificent islands for myself. My parents had been living in Ecuador for some years prior and I had made it my duty to go out to visit them… more
If you really want to sell the product, put it to RAP
| October 31, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Darwinism, Evolution |
On the other hand, if this is what you’ve got to do to sell the product, maybe it ain’t so great … SOURCE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hUNBhRiKCI more
Cell Size and Scale
| October 31, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Intelligent Design |
Check this out — move the cursor to the right: learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale more
Bashing Mother Teresa: Christopher Hitchens Goes E. O. Wilson One Better
| October 31, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Culture, Ethics, Evolution |
| In THE DESIGN OF LIFE, Jonathan Wells and I describe E. O. Wilson’s attack on Mother Teresa as follows (the context of the discussion is that whereas traditional morality must come to terms with the problem of evil, evolutionary morality must come to terms with the problem of good): For E. O. Wilson, goodness… more
Guilt by Association
| October 30, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Creationism, Intelligent Design |
Nick Matzke and other critics of ID like nothing better than to conflate ID with young-earth creationism (go here for the latest in this vein by Matzke). But as University of Wisconsin science historian Ron Numbers has noted, even though it’s inaccurate to conflate the two, this is “the easiest way to discredit intelligent design”… more
Darwin Was Really Wrong!
| October 30, 2009 | Posted by PaV under Intelligent Design |
I just finished reading a rather fascinating article by Bruno Maddox over at Discover Magazine on Charles Darwin’s first paper, a paper he presented to the Royal Society around 1836 and which gained him entrance into the Society as a Fellow. The paper dealt with the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, found in the “remote… more
Brain Secretions and Gravity
| October 29, 2009 | Posted by GilDodgen under Intelligent Design |
Why is thought, being a secretion of the brain, more wonderful than gravity, a property of matter? It is our arrogance, it is our admiration of ourselves… — Charles Darwin, age 29, in his notebook This is an incredible comment. It is difficult to understand how anyone with a brain could not observe that thought… more
For the Benefits of Religion without Religion …
| October 29, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Atheism, Religion |
[This just in an email from the skeptics:] The Center for Inquiry is launching a Secular Celebrant Program! CFI Secular Celebrant Training December 5, 2009 Center for Inquiry Indiana 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, Indianapolis Click here to register online. Why a CFI Secular Celebrant Program? As we move through life, we celebrate many occasions… more
The Scientific Impossibility of Evolution
| October 29, 2009 | Posted by Mario A. Lopez under Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Science |
November 9, 2009 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. St. Pius V University (Rome) In Response to Pope Benedict XVI’s Call for Both Sides to be Heard The 150th anniversary of Darwin’s “Origin of the Species” in November 2009 will be the occasion for a unique conference at Pope Pius V University in Rome presenting a… more
ID Website Targeted to Disrupt Conference in Colorado
| October 28, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design |
Anika Smith has reported at Evolution News and Views an attack which appears to be original to Darwinists. Although the attackers are, as yet, anonymous, the apparent motivation was to obfuscate a conference featuring leading Intelligent Design proponents scheduled this weekend at Douglas County Event Center in Castle Rock, Colorado. Earlier this month the Shepherd… more
Where Mycologists Go To Church On Sundays!
| October 27, 2009 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
When it comes to academic triumphs and laudatory honors it can be said that mycologist Paul Stamets has his fair share. Stamets has authored six books on mushrooms, holds over twenty patents, is a winner of the Collective Heritage Institute’s Bioneers Award and owns a wholesale business selling alternative medicines. Today he also runs a facility that… more
Potentiality and emergence
| October 26, 2009 | Posted by niwrad under Intelligent Design |
An UD author in a previous post asked: “would ID proponents see ID as part of emergence or as an alternative to emergence?”. I would answer: ID is not an alternative to emergence, rather the only thing that can explain emergence when it implies complex specified information (CSI), because CSI properties cannot emerge without intelligent… more
Central Dogma revisited
| October 26, 2009 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
This new paper by James Shapiro may be of interest . In it he elaborates on the central dogma of molecular biology. It has become very complex since the old “one gene one protein and all the rest is junk” days. Here is the summary table. Conventional expression of the Central Dogma of Molecule Biology: (DNA… more
Neuroscience and popular materialism: What makes the human brain unique?
| October 24, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Neuroscience |
Here’s a great reason for rejecting pop neuroscience, titled “We are neuroscientists and we come in peace”: Peace? Hmmm. Just try coming to war here and see what happens. Just when it seemed things could get no worse, Hank Greely of Stanford Law School pointed to several areas of potential friction between neuroscience research and… more
Darwinism and academic culture: So now we admit there are problems?
| October 23, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Intelligent Design |
If people are scientists of any kind, why must they insist that the science press sound like the National Enquirer? That’s what happens when a completely ridiculous discipline like “evolutionary” psycholopgy gets a whole lot of press.
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Cambrian explosion film to be shown, after all
| October 23, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Cambrian explosion |
Anika Smith, at the Discovery Institute, informs me that: Those who live in the Los Angeles area are invited to attend a gala premiere screening of Illustra Media’s new documentary, Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record next Sunday, October 25th at 7:00 pm at the University of Southern California. The event is… more
David Berlinski’s Speaking Tour
| October 21, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Intelligent Design |
David Berlinski will be giving a lecture tour around the States this fall. Here are the dates: October 23 — lecture at King’s College, New York October 25 — Darwin’s Dilemma screening, USC, Los Angeles October 27 — lecture and discussion, Beverly Hills Library, Beverly Hills October 31 — lecture at ID conference, Colorado Springs… more
Neural Darwinism made simple
| October 21, 2009 | Posted by William Dembski under Humor, Neuroscience |
Forget all those technical treatises on the evolution of neuronal topology. Here’s all you need to know: “Well you see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are… more
This is Science? But some folks claim ID isn’t? Why?
| October 20, 2009 | Posted by Clive Hayden under Intelligent Design, Science |
So let’s take a look around and see what passes for science today. One article comes to mind as an example of the peculiar, and it’s from The New York Times. This article explains how some scientists, probably considered mainstream, have posited that tiny particles are abhorred by nature, so nature, knowing that physicists will… more