Monthly Archives: January 2010
An Eye For An ‘I’: Fighting The Twisted Fables Of The Anti-ID Lobby
| January 31, 2010 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
Review Of Intelligent Design 101: Leading Experts Explain The Key Issues ISBN 978-0-8254-2781-7 The debate over whether or not our universe was designed with a purpose is one that centers not around philosophical questions but over “competing scientific explanations of the data”. That is the central argument expounded by Phillip Johnson in Intelligent Design 101,… more
Another Day, Another Embarrassment for the IPCC
| January 31, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
The United Nations’ expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world’s mountain tops on a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine. The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate… more
New book “In the Beginning…”
| January 31, 2010 | Posted by Granville Sewell under Intelligent Design |
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My new book, “In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design” has just been released by Discovery Institute Press and is available here. The book is described as “wide-ranging” on the back cover, because it has chapters on the big bang, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics, and quantum mechanics, as well as… more
Reverend Jerry Coyne Thus Saith
| January 31, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
At the First Church of Darwin, at the University of Chicago, Reverend Jerry Coyne preaches on evolution. Reverend Coyne’s preaching is very much in the Darwinian wisdom literature tradition, explaining all manner of religious doctrines that, as evolutionists have explained many times, we all must accept. As a service, Reverend Coyne has gathered those theological… more
Falk’s fallacy
| January 31, 2010 | Posted by idnet.com.au under Intelligent Design |
Over on the Biologos Website, Dr. Darrel Falk has posted a response to Dr. Stephen Meyer’s claim in “Signature in the Cell,” that only intelligent agents have demonstrated the capacity to produce large amounts of functionally specified information. Dr. Falk cites a counterexample: “Consider the generation of antibody diversity for example. When a bacterium invades the… more
IPCC Caught in Another Lie
| January 30, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt. Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it.… more
What Will be the 21st Century’s Theory of Origins?
| January 30, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
It would be foolish for me to try to predict what the twenty first century’s theory of origins will be, but I can tell you one thing: it will be called evolution. Read more more
James Shapiro at Fermilab: Richards Dawkins “lives in a world of fantasy”
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by Paul Nelson under Intelligent Design |
Thought I’d whack the hornets’ nest with that deliberately provocative title. But Dawkins isn’t the only person who can pack a lecture hall to capacity these days. Last Friday evening (1/22), molecular biologist James Shapiro of the University of Chicago spoke to a standing room-only (800+) audience in Ramsey Auditorium at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.… more
Climate Change developments – call for honest dialogue
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by Steno under Intelligent Design |
The UK Government’s chief scientist has called for honest dialogue on climate change. Quoted from the Timesonline Science chief John Beddington calls for honesty on climate change 27/01/10 “” “The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions… more
A Walk Through Nature: Expanding ID’s Global Influence
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by Robert Deyes under Intelligent Design |
2010 sees the beginning of a new series in Spanish exploring key findings from contemporary science that support the intelligent design inference. The series Passeos Por La Naturaleza (A Walk Through Nature) aims to further strengthen the global influence that the Intelligent Design movement already enjoys and raise awareness of important academic resources that are… more
Jingjing decoded in part
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by David Tyler under Intelligent Design |
The first species to have its genome decoded by ‘next-generation-sequencing’ (NGS) machines is the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). The individual animal was known previously to the world as the mascot of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Scientists have been excited by the report because the NGS approach is significantly cheaper and faster than other methods.… more
Chaperonins: Open and Shut Case
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
A protein is created in the cell by copying its DNA gene, making any necessary edits to the copy, and passing the copy to the ribosome machine which uses the genetic code to translate the copy (a series of nucleotides) into the protein structure (a series of amino acids). But the story does not end… more
Dawkins is back from playing Father Christmas
| January 29, 2010 | Posted by Steno under Intelligent Design |
Dawkins is back from his Christmas break – a shame he didn’t listen to the message of Christmas about peace and goodwill to all men but launches into another ill informed attack on religion. Dawkins in the Times Of course for Dawkins a world without religion would be a better one. But when ever atheism… more
“Overwhelming Scientific Evidence” yet again
| January 28, 2010 | Posted by William Dembski under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Science |
Whenever I hear the phrase “overwhelming evidence” or “overwhelming scientific evidence,” my antennae go up and I know that someone is trying to sell me something. Last night, if you were watching the networks, you heard the following remark: I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.… more
METHODOLOGICAL NATURALISM, REVISIONIST HISTORY, AND MORPHING DEFINITIONS
| January 28, 2010 | Posted by StephenB under Intelligent Design |
Whenever I tune in to any discussion on the subject of “methodological naturalism,” I often marvel at the extent to which Darwinists will rewrite history and manipulate the language in their futile attempt to defend this so-called “requirement” for science. In order to set the stage, we must first try to understand what methodological naturalism could… more
Evolutionary psychology: Lots of thoughtful folk are getting leery of it
| January 28, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Evolutionary psychology |
Here is my post at Examiner on why. I thought it would never happen, actually. But I should have remembered – all psychology fads are inherently ridiculous because they are attempts to evade the depth of the human condition with some silly new idea. They collapse under the weight of their own folly. more
The Evolution of Serendipity
| January 28, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
A key question for evolution has always been: How does biological variation arise? Darwin’s theory of evolution explained that natural selection killed off the less-fit variations, but how did the variation arise in the first place? In the nineteenth century the mechanisms of biological variation were not well understood and it was possible to imagine… more
Prestin and Darwin’s Gardener
| January 27, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
A fundamental, and often false, prediction of evolution is that functionally unconstrained DNA should not be conserved in distant species. As described here, everything from proteins to long stretches of DNA, though highly similar across different species, defy evolutionsts who search for a functional constraint, as required by their theory. And how do evolutionists respond?… more
Yet Another IPCC Foul
| January 26, 2010 | Posted by Barry Arrington under Intelligent Design |
This is looking more and more like a farce: This is to be found in Chapter 13 of the Working Group II report, the same part of the IPCC fourth assessment report in which the “Glaciergate” claims are made. There, is the startling claim that: “Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically… more
Proteins That Regulate Protein Production
| January 26, 2010 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Most people understand that our genes are stored in our DNA but what is less commonly understood is how the cell determines which genes to use at any one time. The DNA in our cells contain tens of thousands of protein-coding genes whose proteins serve a great variety of purposes. They serve as railroad tracks,… more